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PS Picks: ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ and a More Optimistic Vision of the Future

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Kristina Kutateli

An aerial picture shows the Boudhanath Stupa in Kathmandu on February 1, 2017, during its reopening following renovation after earthquake damage. Boudhanath Stupa was among hundreds of historic monuments damaged during the 7.8-magnitude quake that hit Nepal in April 2015, killing nearly 9,000 people.

Letter From Kathmandu, Nepal: The Omnipresence of Dust

Each time the electricity powers off in Kathmandu, thousands of diesel generators rumble to life, spewing noxious particulate matter, or PM2.5.

Abby Seiff

Smarter Kids Are More Open to Experimentation With Drugs and Alcohol

A study found that 11-year-olds who demonstrated medium or high academic ability were more likely to smoke cannabis at ages 18 to 20.

Tom Jacobs

Stalled Out: How Social Bias Is Segregating America’s Bathrooms

Public restrooms are sparking moral panic nationwide, and not for the first time. What, exactly, makes shared bathrooms so ripe for controversy? And what can we do about it?

Kate Wheeling

How to Make Friends in Outer Space

When Carl Sagan's team sent two gold-plated records into space in 1977, it wanted to make alien contact. Forty years later, those time capsules are hurtling beyond the reaches of the Solar System, still seeking intelligent life.

Louise Fabiani

From a perch in the Matthews Range, members of the Samburu, a tribe of semi-nomadic pastoralists, look down at the Namunyak Wildlife Conservancy, which they're working to protect from elephant poachers.

Field Notes: Looking Out Over Matthews Range in Kenya

Matthews Range, Kenya: From a perch in the Matthews Range, members of the Samburu, a tribe of semi-nomadic pastoralists, look down at the Namunyak Wildlife Conservancy, which they're working to protect from elephant poachers.

Pacific Standard Staff

There’s a Name for That: The Emotional Seesaw

According to a recent research, law enforcement often leverages a powerful psychological susceptibility—the "emotional seesaw effect"—that potentially has widespread application.

Peter C. Baker

Author and political commentator Van Jones.

A Politics of Compassion: An Interview With Van Jones

The author and vocal CNN commentator on Donald Trump, spirit quests, and the Nelson Mandela factor in political activism.

Rubén Martínez

Letter From the Editor: Concrete Results

Introducing Pacific Standard's August/September 2017 issue.

Nicholas Jackson

Objects That Matter: The Disposable Camera

Kodak embraced the ideals of the Progressive Era early on, aggressively marketing cameras to women from the outset with the launch of advertisements featuring the Kodak Girl—a pretty, camera-wielding woman—in 1893.

Elena Gooray