While current climate models are often inaccurate and have large outcome ranges, artificial intelligence (AI) once again shows itself to be a potential solution. Companies like Google and IBM are already directly working on applying the technology — and...
Author Michael Pollan talks about whether drugs that comfort the terminally ill can also help people mourning the climate future. This story originally appeared in The Nation and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration...
India: how coronavirus sparked a wave of innovation Sreevas Sahasranamam, University of Strathclyde Entrepreneurs and innovators across India have responded quickly to the challenge posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. A host of new innovations, some emerging from...
The first time I met Rubén was at a random bar in Berlin, when I was at a bar-crawl on a "boring" Tuesday with a good friend of mine. He was bartending, and actually just called last-called as me and my friend entered the bar. All of a sudden, this boring Tuesday got...
The phrase "All I know is that I know nothing" has probably never been more true than right now, with the world hit by this virus that is sweeping through population after population and has brought the entire world to a standstill. And because it's so new, of course,...
If you are like me, then you will already have got to the point where you think you'll scream if one more article, video, news report, anything, has the word coronavirus in it. I mean I know it's a virus and it's, like, everywhere, but really? And this first paragraph...
Another from the archives: As we sit here in April 2020 in Corona-inspired lockdown, I figured that the thing you'd probably most like to read right now would be an interview with me (Noel Maurice) and Amanda Palmer, a couple of weeks before her German tour. I was...
