Vengeance vs. mercy: Monte Cristo & Jean Valjean in real life by Nicolás Boullosa on October 5, 2022 In our interactions, so much boils down to the charged interpretation we make of revenge and forgiveness. Revenge can feel …
Butterfly effect: intense week of (un)serious efforts to curb inflation by Nicolás Boullosa on October 1, 2022 September 2022 refuses to be a dull back-to-school month, what the French call the “rentrée.” But in the last week …
Finding meaning in postmodernity: the forgotten Aldous Huxley by Nicolás Boullosa on September 26, 2022 To each generation, its monsters. With his novella The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka explained more about early-twentieth-century angst than any historian …
Apartment furniture rolls into ceiling, it’s truck-drag strong by Kirsten Dirksen on September 19, 2022 Currently, you can buy a bed, desk, and storage that will drop from the ceiling with the push of a …
Unsafe plastics in everyday products alter hormones & weight by Nicolás Boullosa on September 14, 2022 Like owner, like dog. Pets may share more than their owners’ overall personality. Historical hints at the stunning physical resemblance …
EV car sales get exponential in China: 3.5% to 26% in 2 years by Nicolás Boullosa on September 2, 2022 At first, it happens slowly, the saying goes; and then, suddenly. A market’s dynamism, scale, and/or integration can speed changes, …
Cabin with glass sunroom becomes Oregon’s ideal Nature lookout by Kirsten Dirksen on August 21, 2022 When Joanna and Otto Lovera bought their home in Eugene, Oregon everything (walls, carpet, paint) was what she calls “band-aid …
Learning from Hadza hunter-gatherers and their honey strategy by Nicolás Boullosa on August 21, 2022 To a tiny but growing minority in urban and suburban areas, the most important part of a home is the …
We use more than 5 senses: the symphony of perceiving reality by Nicolás Boullosa on August 12, 2022 It rained, and we walked out. It wasn’t as dark anymore, and the sun was coming and going in between …
Turns barren suburban lot into high-yield Microfarm & YT studio by Kirsten Dirksen on August 8, 2022 On a 1/3rd acre urban lot in Corvallis, Oregon, horticulture professor and youtuber Andrew Millison has spent the past 12 years …
