Earth
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The Teeming Earth May 06, 2025
I TEACH A COURSE each year on the history of energy in the United States. Coal, the foodstuff of the early Industrial Revolution, plays—no surprise—an outsize role. I begin by mentioning its origins as dead plant tissue in the Carboniferous Period—ti...
My Miserable Week in the ‘Happiest Country on Earth’ May 05, 2025
“Coming to Helsinki in February is an objectively weird choice,” said a man named Mikko Tirronen. “During this time, we don’t have …” he paused. “… colors.”I was sitting in a coffee shop with Tirronen, a web developer and writer, after flying to Hels...
The Word Is Not Enough May 05, 2025
In the beginning, and recurrently, the Earth is a formless void. God declares, “Let there be light,” and the world starts to articulate. Light is separated from darkness, sky from water, land from sea. Plants appear on the land, birds in the sky, and...
