Microsoft was founded a few months after what may have been the first use of the term “internet.” In some ways the two have grown up together. Now, Microsoft wants to enter its next stage...
Occasionally, I hear from people here in Europe that America’s issues with systemic racism are really that country’s alone.
On New Year’s Eve I watched revelers navigate crowded sidewalks on the fringes of San Francisco’s financial district, headed to events like a Gatsby-style bash with bottle service and a B...
The world's economic "firefighter" recently warned of an impending blaze that just might engulf a significant portion of the global population.
An actor on an American soap opera recently sought to sidestep a COVID-19 vaccination mandate by doing something fairly common: requesting a religious exemption. Less common was the way h...
Earth is a constant target of random debris cast off by comets and blasted out of other celestial bodies. Now, we may be in a position to start doing something about it.
When Asghar Leghari sued the Pakistani government for failing to adequately protect people from the impacts of climate change, something surprising happened: he won.
About 200 years ago it became evident that Earth’s atmosphere was doing a pretty good job of retaining life-nourishing warmth. A few decades after that, John Tyndall – a scientist and mou...
Members of the Swiss Guard, the elite soldiers sworn to sacrifice their lives for the Pope since 1506, triggered headlines last month when they decided a workplace COVID-19 vaccine mandat...
One country is doing what’s necessary to limit the destruction delivered by climate change. But you may have to squint to see it on a map.
The Dutch East India Company was probably the biggest corporation in history and frequently paid dividends to shareholders – sometimes in the form of cloves. That enduring largesse, even ...
In the days leading up to the COP26 climate summit, Shanxi province was hit with the worst flooding it’s ever recorded.
A recent paper on the seemingly-mundane topic of inflation made a big splash with economists, mostly by suggesting they don’t really understand inflation.
Water scarcity will be the biggest climate-related threat to corporate assets like factories within the next few decades, according to a recent report – but it seems to have barely regist...
It’s been slightly more than a year-and-a-half since the WHO declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. For many people, it may be hard to believe it hasn’t been longer.
