Carl Swanson investigated the Panda Ball — a hoity toity event geared to raising $50 million to ensconce a pair of pandas in New York’s Central Park.
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Welcome to Mars, Sorry About the Face-Melting!
The Red Planet presents scientists with kinks they’ll need to figure out before you can book a shuttle.
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Pivoting Away from Lung Cancer
Big Tobacco takes a page from the Silicon Valley playbook: Welcome to the world of alternative nicotine platforms.
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Pandas Will Fix Everything
How importing cute Chinese guest workers on temporary visas became a cuddly “Kumbaya” dream for New York’s rich and powerful.
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LOL, JFK: The Hot Mess That Is U.S. Immigration Law
Immigration lawyer Matt Cameron writes in The Baffler, laying bare the inequities, misconceptions, and plain messiness that characterize U.S. immigration law.
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Big Tobacco Has Caught Startup Fever
“It’s not smoking. It’s platform-agnostic nicotine delivery solutions.”
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Everything About Mars Is the Worst
It may be the worst, but this jerk planet is still humanity’s best hope for another home in the cosmos.
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Oh, Give Me a Home Where the Woolly Mammoths Roam
Ross Andersen’s captivating profile of Nikita Zimov and his quest to re-create a Pleistocene ecosystem is worth reading, not least for a fascinating explanation of how grasses went from being slimy ocean plants to covering huge swaths of the planet.
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Strangers in a Cruel Land
The wretched state of U.S. immigration enforcement, becoming more wretched by the day.
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Welcome to Pleistocene Park
In Arctic Siberia, Russian scientists are trying to stave off catastrophic climate change—by resurrecting an Ice Age biome complete with lab-grown woolly mammoths.