Albert Yuan is a science reporter at San Lian Lifeweek, one of China’s leading news and lifestyle magazines, where this essay was originally published in Chinese. Let me begin with breakfast. You wake ...

James O’Sullivan lectures in the School of English and Digital Humanities at University College Cork, where his work explores the intersection of technology and culture. At first glance, the feed ...

Aryn Baker is a Rome-based foreign correspondent who has spent the past 25 years writing about the intersection of climate change, conflict, migration, science, culture and politics around the world.

Karen Bakker (1971-2023) was a professor at the University of British Columbia, a Guggenheim fellow and a 2022-23 fellow of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. More than 400 years ...

Leigh Phillips is a science journalist based in Victoria, Canada. Shortly before he (allegedly) murdered 10 Black people with a modified assault rifle at a Buffalo grocery store, 18-year-old Payton ...

Nina Strochlic is a freelance journalist covering migration, conflict and interesting people across the world. She was formerly as staff writer for National Geographic and a reporting fellow with the ...

Mike Mariani is a writer and journalist based in the D.C. area, and the author of “What Doesn’t Kill Us Makes Us,” published in August 2022 by Penguin Random House In his famous Socratic dialogue, ...

Tristan Søbye Rapp is co-founder of The Extinctions, a site that delves into the mass vanishing of species over the last 50,000 years. Before the engine, before the city, before the plow and the chain ...

Alfonso Martinez Arias is ICREA Research Professor in the department of systems bioengineering of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. This essay is adapted from his upcoming book, “The Master ...

Zeve Sanderson is the executive director of NYU’s Center for Social Media & Politics, and a research affiliate at the NYU Center on Technology Policy. Scott Babwah Brennen is the director of the ...

Zhang Weiwei is the director of the Institute of China Studies at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. From 1983 to 1988, he was an interpreter for the Chinese leadership, including Deng Xiaoping.

Leon McCarron is a writer and broadcaster. He is a Yale World Fellow and the recipient of the Cherry Kearton Medal from the Royal Geographical Society. Photography by Emily Garthwaite. AL CHEKA, Iraq ...