Would You Ditch All This Chaos for a Country in the Cloud?
[ad_1] You see the future, right? You want to have a kid, so you go enroll in a network state with Nordic-style social benefits in its territories. You want to…
My 4 Days in Fake Gay-Conversion Therapy
[ad_1] “Maybe I’ll let you have it,” he says, and I can hear the smirk. Ferret’s a virgin, but I can’t bring myself to blush. The path continues on through…
Inside the Shadow Evacuation of Kabul
[ad_1] Certain it was too late, Parker called Essazay, who told his family to leave everything behind, not even packing a change of clothes, which might reveal that they were…
Sayaka Murata Inhabits a Planet of Her Own
[ad_1] By the time I meet Sayaka Murata, on a recent afternoon in June, the back of my linen dress is damp. It’s an oppressively humid summer day in Tokyo,…
What If You Tried to Swallow a Whole Cloud?
[ad_1] As the soup collapsed inward toward the center of the solar system, its molecules would be squeezed closer together and the pressure would rise. It would take a few…
The Family That Mined the Pentagon’s Data for Profit
[ad_1] While the two sat for lunch, Botha delivered Posey a shopping list of technical data and manuals for Newport Aeronautical to procure. The South African would ultimately order documents…
The Curious Afterlife of a Brain Trauma Survivor
[ad_1] Sophie Papp and her family had a ritual for the recently departed. Whenever a relative died, she and her brother and cousins would all squeeze into a car and…
The Double Life of the Bloodsucking Sea Lamprey
[ad_1] Michigan State University has several labs dedicated to the study and control of lampreys, which make for idiosyncratic subjects. Lamprey skeletons are constructed of cartilage rather than bone, and…
The Big Business of Burying Carbon
[ad_1] Applicants for EPA carbon-storage permits must persuade the agency that they can contain both the plume of injected carbon dioxide and a secondary plume of saltwater that the CO2…
The High-Stakes Race to Engineer New Psychedelic Drugs
[ad_1] “This is my life,” Wallach says. “There is nothing else I’d rather be doing. If I was given a billion dollars, today, the first thing I would do is…