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Imagine travelling through China in 1994 by way of the Trans-Siberian Railway, with little knowledge of the country’s culture or language, and a plan to spend “as little time as possible there.” New Yorker writer Peter Hessler describes the bizarre details of the experience, from talking alarm clocks that only speak in Russian, to the [more...]  In a column for the Atlantic, Paul Epstein, coauthor with Dan Ferber of Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about It, investigates the connections between climate change and the intensity of this spring’s tornado season. The piece is perhaps one of the most measured, straightforward [more...] Colbert Report, August 19 I was interviewed on the Colbert Report about sugar policy, of all things. U.S. sugar policy is so absurd that I did not think it could be satirized, but Colbert managed just fine. |
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