Christopher Brown / All Photos: Christopher Brown
- May 17, 2020
- 10 min
The Coyotes of Soylent Green
The coyotes have been getting rowdy this week. Monday night we heard one of those insane banshee chorales—a sudden eruption of alien...
Hannah Devlin / The Guardian
- Apr 15, 2020
- 1 min
Outside Sources / Coronavirus distancing may need to continue until 2022, say experts
Physical distancing measures may need to be in place intermittently until 2022, scientists have warned in an analysis that suggests there...
Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian
- Jul 11, 2019
- 5 min
Outside Sources / 'We all suffer': why San Francisco techies hate the city they transformed
For Zoe, the newfound financial security from working in tech does not counterbalance a constant sense of being unsafe in the city. She...
David Talbot
- Jul 11, 2019
- 4 min
Talbot / An American Dystopia
San Francisco has been turned into such a grotesque dystopia in the last several years that even the tech industry that ruined The City...
Luke Kemp / BBC Future
- Mar 17, 2019
- 1 min
Outside Sources / Are We on the Road to Civilization Collapse?
DEEP CIVILIZATION This article is part of a new BBC Future series about the long view of humanity, which aims to stand back from the...
Vice.com
- Mar 17, 2019
- 1 min
Outside Sources / How to Download the Books That Just Entered the Public Domain
Public Domain Day was yesterday (Jan. 1, 2019) but you were probably hungover, so here’s how to download the tens of thousands of books...
Matt Levin / CALmatters.org
- Mar 13, 2019
- 1 min
Outside Sources / Does “upzoning”—allowing taller, denser housing to be built—actually work?
For most California housing experts, the solution to the state’s housing crisis is pretty intuitive: Build more housing. Study after...
Greg Jaffe & Jenna Johnson / Washington Post
- Mar 2, 2019
- 3 min
Outside Sources / In America, talk turns to something not spoken of for 150 years: Civil war
At a moment when the country has never seemed angrier, two political commentators from opposite sides of the divide concurred recently on...
theGuardian.com
- Feb 26, 2019
- 1 min
Outside Sources / Journalist, 12, faces off with police officer who threatened to arrest her
Hilde Lysiak filmed the encounter with an Arizona marshal, demanding to know what crime she was being accused of. It sounds like...
