In “Our Biggest Experiment,” Alice Bell traces the evolution of climate change and the scientific discoveries that revealed the hazards of unfettered energy consumption. Through this wide-ranging history, Bell portrays a fragile world of interconnected problems, the climate crisis fully underway.
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Editorial Mission
We illuminate the complicated and fractious places where science collides with politics, economics, and culture, and where differing world views compete for resources and influence. Learn more here.
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Book Review: Illnesses Influenced by Culture
In “The Sleeping Beauties,” neurologist Suzanne O’Sullivan explores the world of unexplained comas and other mysterious “culture-bound” disorders. Culturally influenced reactions to trauma, O’Sullivan stresses, have nothing to do with fakery, but are very real, physical manifestations of distress.
Abstracts: Covid Origin, NASA Telescope, and More
The dispute over the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic grew more heated this week, as a pair of papers — one a scientific study that has yet to undergo peer review, the other a leaked grant proposal — fueled speculation about the origin of a coronavirus that has killed millions of people around the world.
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