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Akhil Sharma and Aleksandar Hemon Discuss Poverty, Happiness, and Publishing
What do two writers talk about when you sit them down with each other and a tape recorder?
Game Designer Tim Schafer and Elijah Wood Discuss the Making of ‘Broken Age’
The acclaimed video game maker and actor tell us about the very modern creation of an old-fashioned adventure.
'The Inception of Zombie Wars,' by Aleksandar Hemon
Writing is nothing if not carrying the hopeless, backbreaking burden of decisions devoid of consequences.
The Sluggish Race to Guard the Earth Against Meteors
In the last two decades NASA reported nearly 600 exploding meteorites, many as large as 60 feet, rattling the thermosphere like dynamite. Is anyone worried about that?
The Government Won’t Let Me Watch Them Kill Bison, so I’m Suing
I think that if the public knew what was being done to the Yellowstone herd, people might demand a change in policy.
Writers, Scientists, and Climate Experts Discuss How to Save the World from Climate Change
Should we have fewer kids? Improve our farming techniques? Reform the energy market? Or just get better at helping one another?
Trucks and Children Are Sucking the Beaches of Morocco Dry
A critical ingredient in concrete, glass, and microchips, sand is a hot commodity—and in Morocco, illegal sand extraction costs the government $1.1 billion in unpaid taxes.
Getting Back to Basics at a Primitivist School
At ROOTS, you can learn how to make a longbow the way our premodern ancestors did—but can you learn how to live?
The Baffling, Gruesome Plague That Is Causing Sea Stars to Tear Themselves to Pieces
"They twisted their arms together," a marine biologist said, "and they'd pull and pull and pull, until one of them came off... It was horrific."
The Ecotourism Industry Is Saving Tanzania’s Animals and Threatening Its Indigenous People
For more than a century, the Maasai have been corralled into smaller and smaller pieces of land in order to conserve the environment and precious animals—and to make room for deluxe suites and armies of tourists.
My Tiny House Experiment
For years I've been hearing about tiny houses' benefits—their eco-friendliness, their manageability—so I finally decided to try it out for myself.