“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” — George Santayana (1905) As I write this, the world is
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” — George Santayana (1905) As I write this, the world is
On paper, Xiongan New Area looks green. Islands of trees surrounded by meandering riverways that scallop neatly gridded streets. There are
Sometimes cities fail. Sometimes entire societies do. Joseph Tainter knows this well. In 1988, the anthropologist published The Collapse of Complex
Marissa Devey is a child of the suburbs. A place where sidewalks cordon off neatly trimmed grass and flowerbeds are
Toxins are everywhere, said Jennifer Peeples in the 44th annual Honors Program Last Lecture on Sept. 25. More than we are
When Bill Varga read a book about Jim Bridger back in third grade, he didn’t know he was setting himself
IT STARTED WITH A MISSING DATASET. Brendan Murphy was listening to a talk about megafires in 2017 when a graph on
Several dirt miles outside Navajo Mountain, down an isolated canyon navigable only by foot or four-wheeler, a grove of peach
In the parched black desert of northeast Jordan, archaeologists recently unearthed a stone hearth containing loaves of flatbread more than
The famous earthwork, Spiral Jetty, by Robert Smithson, was built in 1970. At the time, it was partially submerged by