Tech & Business
How I Approach the Toughest Decisions: Our choices reflect and determine who we are.
The Architecture of Tomorrow: An Interview With Ben Horowitz: Ben Horowitz is the author of New York Times bestsellers The Hard Thing About Hard Things and What You Do Is Who You…
The Secret Auction that Set Off the Race for AI Supremacy: By the time he stepped onto a bus in downtown Toronto for the first leg of a trip to Lake Tahoe in December 2012, Geoff…
Why the future of work is the future of travel, with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky: Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky talks about what it was like to lose 80 percent of his business in eight weeks and how…
Environment
The climate disaster is here - this is what the future looks like: Earth is already becoming unlivable. Will governments act to stop this disaster from getting worse?
‘Every choice matters’: can we cling to hope of avoiding 1.5C heating?: Australia’s leading scientists made a significant global-scale declaration about the fight to deal with the climate…
Can we save the planet by shrinking the economy?: Finding the best ways to do good. Most of the world is very poor. Billions of people go hungry, can’t afford a doctor…
She Fell Nearly 2 Miles, and Walked Away: The Great ReadProfiles In Science At 17, biologist Juliane Diller was the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Amazon…
Greta Thunberg: ‘I really see the value of friendship. Apart from the climate, almost nothing else…: Greta Thunberg has made the ultimate sacrifice for the Guardian. She’s allowed us to turn her into a human oil…
Tous contre le virus, seuls contre la surchauffe climatique: Lytton, petit village de 249 âmes de la Colombie-Britannique, est devenu mardi le triste symbole national de la…
Society
Reasons for optimism after a difficult year: Reasons for optimism after a difficult year 2021 was an incredibly hard year for many people, including me, but I'm…
Opinion | We Longed for Parties: Remembering what it felt to be held and Remembering what kissed by friends and strangers.it felt to be held and kissed…
What If You Could Do It All Over?: The uncanny allure of our unlived lives. Once, in another life, I was a tech founder. It was the late nineties, when…
The Evolutionary Mystery of Left-Handedness: “Sahara is too little price / to pay for thy Right hand,” Emily Dickinson wrote in a poem. “The right hand = the hand…
The Liberation of Paris From Cars Is Working: Over the past six years, Paris has done more than almost any city in the world to take space back from cars. Mayor Anne…
Beyond Smart: October 2021[[[[ If you asked people what was special about Einstein, most would say that he was really smart. Even the…
The Coronavirus pandemic
Yuval Noah Harari: Lessons from a year of Covid | Free to read: How can we summarise the Covid year from a broad historical perspective? Many people believe that the terrible toll…
Scientists Used CRISPR to Engineer a New ‘Superbug’ That’s Invincible to All Viruses: Can we reprogram existing life at will? To synthetic biologists, the answer is yes. The central code for biology is…
N.Y.’s Vaccine Websites Weren’t Working. He Built a New One for $50.: New Yorkers with tech skills were appalled when they tried to make vaccine appointments for older relatives. They knew…
Food & Arts
Une île, deux chums, quatre tableaux: Le chef Martin Picard. Le peintre Marc Séguin. Deux figures de proue dans leur secteur. Deux grands chums, unis par…