Climate negotiators are trying to solve a math problem at COP26. As the UN climate summit enters its second week, government officials new ways to reduce emissions, The Wall Street Journal reports. The problem: Commitments made so far during COP26 are nowhere near helping to avoid the worst effects of global warming. Rivian is raising …
FALL OUTSpies, Superbombs and the Ultimate Cold War Showdownby Steve Sheinkin Steve Sheinkin’s new nonfiction thriller about the Cold War is like one of its main emblems, the U-2 spy plane: fast, lean, and capable of surveying large amounts of territory. “Fallout” also introduces young readers to a lot of material that has been classified …
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Sixty years ago on Saturday, the Soviet Union exploded world’s most powerful nuclear weapon, with a force 3,333 times the bomb used in Hiroshima. As the device shattered all records, it sent shock waves through the American defense agency: How should the United States react? Did the nation need bigger, more destructive weapons? Was it …
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One day, astronomers may detect an asteroid months away from a disastrous rendezvous with Earth. Our only chance of surviving at such a late stage would be to try using a nuclear explosive to destroy it. But would it work? Unlike some of the melodramatic Hollywood blockbusters of the 1990s, real-life scientists are largely uninterested …
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One day last December, Julie Salamon was rummaging through piles of old plastic bins in a lower Manhattan storage unit. Salamon, 68, is a journalist, writer, and describes himself as a “pack rat.” The boxes were accidental galleries in the museum of a life’s work, filled with relics—notebooks, clippings, photographs, and tapes—that have accumulated for …
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When Colombian duo Bomba Estéreo, consisting of Simón Mejía and Liliana Saumet, were almost finishing recording their sixth studio album “Deja”, the band participated in an ancient ritual: a pagamento or payment. In a video interview with her home studio in Bogota, Mejía explained that it was a “ceremony of paying back what you took …
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