Why does the iPad mini exist? Let me count the ways. It’s for kids, people with small hands and good eyesight, people who want a pocketable(-ish) iOS device that doesn’t compromise on features, claust

I wish I had something more clever to say about the new iPhone 13 lineup. But the practical reality is simple and obvious. The two ways that Apple could best improve the day-to-day utility of using an

Steve Potash, the bearded and bespectacled president and C.E.O. of OverDrive, spent the second week of March, 2020, on a business trip to New York City. OverDrive distributes e-books and audiobooks—i.

Vaccines don’t last forever. This is by design: Like many of the microbes they mimic, the contents of the shots stick around only as long as it takes the body to eliminate them, a tenure on the order

For a while, a COVID-19 crisis in India seemed to have taught the world a valuable lesson : that an uncontrolled coronavirus outbreak anywhere poses a threat everywhere and, crucially, that without mo

Posted on August 9, 2021 Posted by John Scalzi I feel sad for all the people this fellow misled before serving as an object lesson. Apparently he was a deathbed conversion to vaccination. Had he conve

Updated at 5:10 p.m. ET on August 18, 2021 I n September 2020 , just before COVID-19 began its wintry surge through the United States, I wrote that the country was trapped in a pandemic spiral, seemin

President Joe Biden stands with the bipartisan group of senators working on the infrastructure deal on June 24, 2021, in Washington, DC. Win McNamee/Getty Images Not many people wake up thrilled at th

Covid vaccines are incredibly effective. The media’s overhyping of new research from the CDC is making people think otherwise. Published in Elemental · 5 min read · Jul 31, 2021 -- Roger Stames, Sr. f

The Barbaric History of Sugar in America How sugar became the “white gold” that fueled slavery — and an industry that continues to exploit black lives to this day. The 1619 Project examines the legacy

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Updated at 5:30 p.m. ET on July 29, 2021 “Liberté, égalité, fraternité!” is the cry that once stirred a nation to action, but out here in the crumbling state of California, we’re at a lower ebb. A hob

Climate Change Drove Western Heat Wave’s Extreme Records, Analysis Finds A rapid analysis of last week’s record-breaking heat found that it would have been virtually impossible without the influence o

PORTLAND, Ore. — On the heels of one of the worst wildfire years on record, the federal government is struggling to recruit and retain staff as firefighters grapple with low wages, trauma and burnout

Venus Lacks Plate Tectonics. But It Has Something Much More Quirky. Scientists say giant slices of rock may move across the surface of Earth’s closest neighbor like pack ice floating in the sea. A 1,1

C ities and towns are opening back up after their coronavirus-induced shutdowns. Job vacancies have surged to historic highs . Millions of Americans report that they are looking for work. Yet employer

Your credit card rewards are paid for by America’s poor. Getty Images/iStockphoto This story is part of a group of stories called There is an entire ecosystem dedicated to gaming the credit card rewar

Any diagnostic test worth its salt has precision on its side. It can pinpoint the presence of this condition, but not that one; it can, when used for an infectious disease, distinguish between microbe

By Ezra Levin, Co-Founder & Co-Executive Director, Indivisible 7 min read · Jun 8, 2021 -- If you had the misfortune of being online this weekend, you might have seen Senator Manchin’s op-ed explainin

Covid has unleashed the most severe setback to women’s liberation in my lifetime. While watching this happen, I have started to think we are witnessing an outbreak of disaster patriarchy. Naomi Klein

A Big Climate Problem With Few Easy Solutions: Planes The airline industry might not be able to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for decades because most solutions are not yet viable. A recently announ

Money, it’s often said, is a shared fiction. I give you a slip of paper or, more likely these days, a piece of plastic. You hand me eggs or butter or a White Chocolate Mocha Frappuccino, and we both w

Guest Essay Covid’s Deadliest Phase May Be Here Soon May 28, 2021 By Dr. Tufekci is a contributing Opinion writer who has extensively examined the Covid-19 pandemic. 阅读简体中文版 閱讀繁體中文版 If world leaders d

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has decided it still needs a strong financial plan before greenlighting a pilot project that would allow students and low-income people to ride Metro trains a

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Built in the 1950s to speed suburban commuters to and from downtown, Rochester’s Inner Loop destroyed hundreds of homes and businesses, replacing them with a broad, concrete trench t

Why it matters: Apple has received a lot of praise for creating the M1 SoC, whether it be for its performance when compared to Intel and AMD CPUs in the same class, or for its relatively cool and batt

Casino developer Steve Wynn and his wife Andrea Hissom, make their way to the Senate Policy luncheon. Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter

Phys Ed E-Bikes Can Provide a Good Workout Pedal-assisted electric bikes provided a faster and more “fun” commute while raising breathing and heart rates enough to contribute to fitness. Credit... Sco

The new M1 iPad Pros mark a moment in the history of Apple silicon. I use a lowercase “s” there deliberately — I’m talking about the post-iPhone history of the chips in Apple’s Macs and iOS devices. W

It’s probably safe to say that the iPad Pro is a product in transition. Sales of iPads have returned to the heights of its heady early days, and the low-end iPad and the mid-range iPad Air respectivel

The return of vibrant hardware color options to the iMac lineup immediately brings to mind the G3 iMacs that Apple sold from 1998 to 2003. 20 years is a long time, but I’ll go back further, to the ori

Note : This story has not been updated since 2021. The original Bondi Blue iMac was a computer designed to draw attention, in an era where ugly beige-box PCs were designed to fade into the background

This article was published online on May 10, 2021. M ost of the people who come to Blandford Cemetery, in Petersburg, Virginia, come for the windows—masterpieces of Tiffany glass in the cemetery’s dec

Eighteen scientists from some of the world’s most prestigious research institutions are urging their colleagues to dig deeper into the origins of the coronavirus responsible for the global pandemic. I

President Richard Nixon in San Francisco in July 1969. (The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) The University of California has proposed shocking changes to its policing policies. These changes

Scientists experimenting in the lab have found that the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is capable of infecting two types of brain cells — neurons and astrocytes. The findings could shed light on a p

Sen. Elizabeth Warren holds a news conference in March. She and Sen. Bernie Sanders are leading the push to introduce a bill Tuesday that would make pandemic-related food benefits for college students

Until now, 2011 was the most brutal year for abortion rights in recent history. In the 12 months after the “red wave” in the 2010 midterm elections, Republicans enacted 92 abortion restrictions across

Marques Brownlee has a great video this week on Apple’s ability to disrupt product categories with better integration. Take a break and watch it if you haven’t already — like everything from MKBHD, it

In “pre-colonial times,” wrote the late feminist scholar Niara Sudarkasa , women in West Africa were “conspicuous in high places.” They led armies, often played important consultative roles in politic