Victory Brings Its Own Dangers Last weekend I was in Kyiv, where European, American, and Ukrainian officials were mingling with journalists and…
The Coronavirus Has One Strategy We Can’t… By the time a cell senses that it’s been infected by a virus, it generally knows it is doomed. Soon, it will be…
Remember Zawahari’s Victims Every organization devoted to mass death needs a charmless, bespectacled, blank-eyed chief operating officer who…
What an Alzheimer’s Controversy Reveals About… For scientists, publication in Nature is a career high-water mark. To make its pages, work must be deemed…
The Day I Saw the Emperor’s Clay Soldiers Farmers were digging a well near Xi’an, China, in 1974 when they found fragments of clay that turned out to be…
The Game Is (Probably) Up for Boris Johnson Don’t stop me just because you’ve heard this story before, but Prime Minister Boris Johnson is once again fighting…
Where Were the Police? My advice, if you are in an active-shooter situation, is the same no matter your age. Listen for the source of the…
The Doom Spiral of Pernicious Polarization Until a few decades ago, most Democrats did not hate Republicans, and most Republicans did not hate Democrats. Very…
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These Animals Are Feasting on the Ruins of an… Karasik, the largest underwater mountain in the Arctic, was meant to be dead. Volcanically, it is. But…