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How do you levy a threat when it’s not clear where an attack is coming from or who is responsible?Tech / Annals of TechnologyCyberwar, Iran, Cyberattacks, Cybersecurity, John BoltonSue HalpernCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-peculiar-delights-of-the-enormous-cicada-emergence6621496ee15428a78c408ea0Tue, 07 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000As loud as leaf blowers, as miraculous as math, the insects are set to overtake the landscape.Science / ElementsCicadas, Insects, BugsRivka GalchenCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-medicine/how-ecmo-is-redefining-death65954b77c64e7928a0a395a9Tue, 30 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000A medical technology can keep people alive when they otherwise would have died. Where will it lead?Science / Annals of MedicineHealth Care, Hospitals, Technology, Mortality, ScienceClayton DaltonCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-highest-tree-house-in-the-amazon64baae0f7ac8745598305d27Wed, 17 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000In 2023, conservationists and carpenters converged on Peru to build luxury accommodations in the rain-forest canopy.Science / ElementsAmazon, Peru, Rain Forests, Tree Houses, ConservationAllison KeeleyCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/a-guide-to-the-total-solar-eclipse65e86dd7f5f3aa922bfc6975Fri, 05 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000Eclipses dazzled the ancient world. Now that we understand them better, they may be even more miraculous.Science / ElementsSolar Eclipse, PhysicsRivka GalchenCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/black-holes-are-even-weirder-than-you-imagined65a012674761520cd587b3a9Sat, 30 Mar 2024 10:00:00 +0000It’s now thought that they could illuminate fundamental questions in physics, settle questions about Einstein’s theories, and even help explain the universe.Science / ElementsBlack Holes, Science, Scientists, General Relativity, Astrophysics, CosmologyRivka GalchenCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/22/the-promise-and-price-of-cellular-therapies5d261667a2d6e10008e18574Mon, 15 Jul 2019 09:00:00 +0000New “living drugs”—made from a patient’s own cells—can cure once incurable cancers. But can we afford them?Magazine / Annals of MedicineCells, Therapy, Science, Medicine, Transplants, CancerSiddhartha MukherjeeCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/03/parenting-by-the-numbers5ce56fd953abc468f1bba8c6Mon, 27 May 2019 09:00:00 +0000The economist Emily Oster challenges the conventional wisdom on child rearing.Magazine / Annals of ParenthoodParenting, Economists, Books, Emily Oster, ChildrenLizzie WiddicombeCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-fight-for-the-future-of-youtube5c92b1581755f05cc006aa93Mon, 08 Jul 2019 09:00:00 +0000The video giant’s recent travails underscore a basic question: How “neutral” should social-media platforms try to be?Tech / Annals of TechnologyNews / Annals of CommunicationsYouTube, Social Media, Hate Speech, TechnologyNeima JahromiCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-causes-and-consequences-of-berlins-rapid-gentrification5d13b63d771fd7000873be71Fri, 12 Jul 2019 09:00:00 +0000The city’s reputation as a place where artists and creative types can afford to live as they please is eroding.News / DispatchBerlin, Gentrification, Yellow Vests, Real Estate DevelopmentElisabeth ZerofskyCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-haunted-image-of-harriet-tubman-on-the-twenty-dollar-bill5d03e7b7dba2861c93d8b303Tue, 18 Jun 2019 20:30:03 +0000A bill picturing the abolitionist was due to début in 2020, before Trump’s Treasury Department announced a lengthy delay.Culture / Cultural CommentHarriet Tubman, Steven Mnuchin, Money, Currency, American HistoryDoreen St. FélixCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/why-socialism-is-back5d08cfadbeac83773df235b8Tue, 18 Jun 2019 18:13:00 +0000There is a direct link from the Wall Street bailout to the Presidential campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.News / Our ColumnistsSocialism, Tony Blair, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth WarrenJohn CassidyCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/01/louisianas-disappearing-coast5c928713fd08e8090beac1afMon, 25 Mar 2019 09:00:00 +0000The state loses a football field’s worth of land every hour and a half. Now engineers are in a race to prevent it from sinking into oblivion.Magazine / The Control of NatureMississippi River, Louisiana, Rivers, Floods, Environment, Louisiana State UniversityElizabeth KolbertCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/20/can-we-live-longer-but-stay-younger5cd19f48b36101408ccec790Mon, 13 May 2019 09:00:00 +0000With greater longevity, the quest to avoid the infirmities of aging is more urgent than ever.Magazine / Brave New World Dept.Aging, Old Age, Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Science, AgeismAdam GopnikCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/the-backstory-why-a-psychiatrist-collected-premonitions5c70165c7c5e9a49ce257b5cFri, 22 Feb 2019 15:33:00 +0000Sam Knight discusses his reporting on how a psychiatrist set out to collect the dreams and forebodings of the British public.CultureCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/kid-inventors-tell-all5a05eb88963dc9417410c07eMon, 13 Nov 2017 12:00:00 +0000Students between the ages of six and twelve offer sage advice at the National Invention Convention on solving real-world problems, big and small. Behold: the Blackberry Picker, Storibot, and the ChemotheraPop.CultureCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/the-american-opioid-crisis59e7b19d34ab9a14429f4823Mon, 23 Oct 2017 08:00:00 +0000In Ohio, a view of the devastation on the ground captured by the photographer Philip Montgomery.NewsCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/the-firefighters-battling-the-northern-california-wildfires59eac4761685003c9c28c34eFri, 01 Jan 9999 00:00:00 +0000Our 360 Video takes you inside the efforts to contain the disaster.NewsCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/27/donald-trumps-abortion-problem-at-the-polls66464697639518535f08b28fSun, 19 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, G.O.P. efforts to ban abortion have backfired with voters in many states—and they could do so again in November.Magazine / CommentMargaret TalbotCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-writers-voice/thomas-mcguane-reads-thataway6633aa06aae0a6bc78d22179Sun, 19 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000The author reads his story from the May 27, 2024, issue of the magazine.Podcast / The Writer’s VoiceAuthors, Readings, Short Stories, Fiction, AudioCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/books/this-week-in-fiction/thomas-mcguane-05-27-2466428ca31d55229b625015d2Sun, 19 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000The author discusses his story “Thataway.”Books / This Week in FictionFiction, Disable Inline Signup Unit, Small towns, Alcoholism, SiblingsDeborah TreismanCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/what-george-miller-has-learned-in-forty-five-years-of-making-mad-max-movies6643cb37666969e8a35847f9Sun, 19 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000In a series of conversations, the director of “Furiosa” explains why silent films have the best action, audiences are seldom wrong, and his wife is always right.Culture / The New Yorker InterviewMovies, Movie Directors, George Miller, Action Movies, ViolenceBurkhard BilgerCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-food-scene/penny-the-glittering-pleasure-of-a-perfect-raw-bar6646744c6e6574d352916d66Sun, 19 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000Penny, in the East Village, has a polished, understated swagger that somehow makes the oysters taste even better.Culture / The Food SceneSeafood, East Village, Restaurants, DiningHelen RosnerCondé Nasthttps://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/the-kafkaesque-journey-of-the-oakland-as6647b353bdaf7aab3fa9f04aSun, 19 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000As the team’s current owner tries to move the franchise to Las Vegas, its situation has become hopeless and absurd.Sports / The Sporting SceneBaseball, Major League Baseball, Oakland Athletics, StadiumsLouisa ThomasCondé Nast