PHILADELPHIA — For weeks, scrutiny over singer Taylor Swift’s travel in private jets has been bubbling up on social media, with people pointing out the planet-warming emissions of carbon dioxide released with every flight. The megastar is dating Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, one of the NFL’s most celebrated players. The growing romance … Read more
Geert Wilders, the anti-Islam populist who won the Dutch election in November, is best known for attacking the Muslims who comprise just over 5% of the Netherlands’ population as human “scum” whose “backward religion” amounts to a “retarded culture” based on the teachings of a “pedophile” prophet. Voters rewarded his pledges to outlaw mosques and … Read more
Ice climbers and ecosystems will be forced to adapt as winter patterns change—and Arnold believes the sport will survive. People who engage in outdoor activities are adaptive, he says. “Sometimes I am concerned. But I don’t think it will happen,” he says of the possibility of ice climbing going extinct. There is already research showing … Read more
The water that pours out of your tap, or that’s unnecessarily packaged in a single-use bottle, or that helped grow the produce in your fridge—all of it may well have come from aquifers somewhere. These are layers of underground material that hold water, and can be made up of porous rock or sediments like sand … Read more
The world is 90 seconds away from global catastrophe on the Doomsday Clock, a dire warning but one that has not moved since last year, according to the annual update from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. Global instability is being driven by Russia’s nearly two-year war in Ukraine, Israel’s war on Hamas after its Oct. … Read more
The Doomsday Clock has been set for 2024, with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists declaring the world remains 90 seconds from global catastrophe. The clock was founded in 1945 by Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and University of Chicago scientists who helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project. The clock is … Read more
With the world facing conflicts and the ever-growing threat of artificial intelligence and climate change, scientists are set to give their latest estimates on how close humanity is to self-annihilation. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will give an update Tuesday on the Doomsday Clock, which currently sits at 90 seconds to midnight — the … Read more
When the country next elects a national government, there will be about 4.5 million Canadians under the age of 30 eligible to vote, a group that demographers have labelled Generation Z, and that pollsters here and around the world say engage in politics in different ways than older voters. The arrival of Generation Z — … Read more
With the Supreme Court green-lighting the MVP, it seems to Larkin and others that there’s only one thing left to do. That is, throw their bodies upon the gears, in hopes of at least slowing things down for one more day, every day, for as long as possible, by force if nothing else. “We knew from … Read more
“She went home with a doll to get the sense of… you know, trying to physically make cups of tea when you’re holding something all the time. That’s a key physical thing. “The emotional stuff, she’s got the empathy and she could smell it out herself.” The End We Start From’s stunning first act explores … Read more
