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The Numbers Don't Add Up
What does the word "trillion" mean to you? In what contexts do you tend to encounter that number? It's not particularly meaningful, really. Can you picture one trillion of... anything? One billion is hard enough, for most of us — if you made $100,000 a year,
The Heat and the War
These things are related, of course, because of the Strait. The Strait, and the island, and the various other geographic landforms and massive pieces of human construction that help prop up a global energy system clinging like a toddler refusing to go to bed to its dirty past.
The Rise of the Prediction Markets Is As Grim as It Gets
I don't think Dante foresaw "insider trading on the specifics of illegal wars of aggression," but it definitely belongs in one circle or another.
Pop Warmer: The Winter Olympics Are Running Out of Mountain
Plenty of sports are affected by warming, but this feels more like a requiem for all the winter sports at once.