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The Next Power Plant Is on the Roof and in the Basement

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On any given Monday in Vermont, Josh Castonguay, the vice-president of innovation at that state’s Green Mountain Power utility, told me, he studies...
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The Droll Capitalist Parable of Cabbage Patch Kids

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​​It was forty years ago, so the memory has likely degraded beyond recognition, but what I seem to recall is that I never...
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Daily Cartoon: Monday, November 20th

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“As far as I can tell, I’m free until the 23rd.” Source link
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How to Stay Calm During Turbulence

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Remember that turbulence is common in air travel, not just on doomed flights.Keep in mind that turbulence is simply a result of flying...
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The Morality of Having Kids in a Burning, Drowning World

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In August, 2003, I was living in London when a weeks-long heat wave seized much of Europe, killing tens of thousands of people....
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Mary’s “Me” Day

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Oh, my God, I could fly to Tierra del Fuego right now! Source link
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Joyce Carol Oates’s Relentless, Prolific Search for a Self

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In the weeks afterward, she felt calm and optimistic. When she was cooking spinach and the water boiled over, she smiled and thought,...
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The Search for Faith, in Three Plays

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Even the weakest attempt at love takes a strange kind of faith. Most of us have enough problems, after all. We grow up...
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A Design Geek’s Space Race: Meatball vs. Worm

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NASA has a meatball and a worm. The meatball—a sphere of stars, a red chevron, and a comet orbiting the agency’s acronym—came first,...
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A Rise in Antisemitism, at Home and Abroad

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Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt talks about antisemitism “from all ends of the political spectrum, and in between.” It threatens not only Jews, she says,...
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