Smartwatches Do Almost Everything—Except Make You Drive Better
One California lawyer thinks that the tech companies that make them should spend a whole lot of money reminding drivers of that fact.
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Weathercasters See the Light on Climate Change
A new survey shows 90 percent are now convinced the phenomenon is real.
Drought? Climate Change? No Sweat for These Desert-Friendly Cattle
Cattle that came over with Columbus might be better bovines for the drought-plagued West.
It’s Time to Take Man-Made Earthquakes as Seriously as We Do Natural Ones
That means monitoring historically inactive areas, such as north central Texas, the way we now monitor earthquake-happy California.
When Crowdfunding Sites Host Killer Cop Campaigns
Platforms that bill themselves as revolutionary are learning what that really means.
Video Game Play May Not Boost Brain Power After All
On this charged issue, a team of researchers comes to the opposite conclusion of some of their colleagues.
Flame Retardants Are Everywhere—and They’re Invading Our Wildlife
Toxicologists are finding possible carcinogens in the bodies of otters and bald eagles, some of the Great Lakes' greatest wildlife.
We Have a Bone to Pick With the Polar Bear Penis Study
John Oliver is hilarious, but his Sunday night bit on pollution and polar bears’ penis bones is based on shaky science.
Subsisting on the Faves
Posting teen angst poetry and being part of an active commenting community helped Christine Friar digest the garden-variety pain of growing up, and—unbeknownst to her at the time—curbed the loneliness of being raised by one sick parent and one caretaker parent.
The Modern Environmental Movement’s Big Failure
Things are finally starting to change—slowly—but, to the detriment of people of color and the environment itself, the conservation movement has been too focused on wealthy, white men.