The Last Geek Standing
Boyd Tanner is a geeky, broke, recently-fired dad—courtesy of the AI system he helped create. With bills mounting and his
Category: Science & Engineering
The New Global Possible
Global environmental leader Ani Dasgupta takes an honest look at lagging climate action and maps out what can be done
Sailing a Serious Ocean
After sailing 300,000 miles and weathering dozens of storms in all the world’s oceans, John Kretschmer has plenty of stories
A Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0
Journey through time and space with Bill Bryson in the best-selling popular science book of the 21st century, exploring the history
Abundance
The New York Times best-selling “manifesto for the future that is grounded in practical solutions addressing the world’s most pressing concerns:
Under Fire and Under Water
Epic wildfire. Devastating drought. Cataclysmic flooding. Extreme weather in the wake of climate change threatens to turn the American West
To Engineer Is Human
How did a simple design error cause one of the great disasters of the 1980s – the collapse of the
Murmurs of Earth
In 1977, two extraordinary spacecraft called Voyager were launched to the stars. Affixed to each Voyager craft was a gold-coated copped phonograph record as
Cloud Warriors
For millennia, humans have tried to understand and predict the weather. The Space Age helped usher in satellites and radar,
The Evidence for Modern Physics
How do we know the universe is 13.8 billion years old? How do we know the speed of light is