The last word with Wendy Schmidt
With the emerging tools of AI, machine learning, space telescopes, and so many others, it’s clear that we are just beginning to understand the universe…
Category: Writing
Bob Ross is once again ready to help save public media
The indomitably forgiving painter Bob Ross, who assured us that mistakes are simply “happy accidents,” didn’t usually talk politics. But it’s worth remembering when he…
The world’s most influential rising stars: Shantanu Agarwal
A new way to eat: How to fix a food system that leaves us vulnerable and hurts the environment
Everything about the way we make and consume food—from the food packaging, to the placement of products in the grocery store aisles, to the background…
The ocean still holds mysteries. That’s why we must save it.
When the world’s first marine reserves were established in the 1920s, Jacques Cousteau was an adolescent. The deepest we could dive was about 500 ft. Humans were beginning…
The problems with deep-sea mining
We stand to lose far more than we could possibly gain by mining the deep seabed. Life-saving pharmaceuticals and unique organisms are not the only things…
It’s time to make the fashion industry more eco-friendly. Here’s how.
Now that gift-giving season is over, gift-returning season is in full swing. And while returning an itchy sweater or ill-fitting shoes might feel like the…
Don’t rely on chance meetings for scientific discoveries
The Smithsonian Institution would do well to acquire the sluggish photocopier that served the third floor of the University of Pennsylvania’s clinical research building in…
L’appello ecologista di Wendy Schmidt (Sailing for Ocean Health)
There is nothing quite as stunning as the crisp blue Gulf of Trieste dotted with thousands of trimmed sails, a sight that greets hundreds of…
How can one person help save the ocean? Compost.
Our oceans are in trouble. What can one person do to save them? Compost. Yes, composting — creating that “black gold” of decomposed food scraps…