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What’s So Bad About Zoos?

Sam Moore — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 16:54:24 +0000

In 1902, two of the last female passenger pigeons in the world escaped from their pen in Woods Hole, Mass. and vanished. Their captor had been Charles O. Whitman, an influential zoologist and the founding director of the Marine Biological Laboratory, who shipped a flock of research birds to New England every summer from his […]

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What’s So Bad About … Coffee?

Sam Moore — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 18:56:11 +0000

If you crave caffeine, and you can’t get enough of it from a bar of chocolate (10 milligrams), a jar of kombucha (15 milligrams), a can of Coca-Cola (35 milligrams), or a bag of black tea (45 milligrams), you might choose coffee; a basic home-brewed cup will zap you with around 100 milligrams of the […]

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What’s So Bad About … Coffee?

Sam Moore — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 18:56:11 +0000

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What’s So Bad About … Private Jets?

Sam Moore — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 18:03:13 +0000

The “Celebrity Jets” account appeared on Twitter in October of 2021. Using publicly available aircraft transponder data, the account generated travel reports for private jets owned by celebrities and other wealthy people. It included the carbon emissions of each flight. The account also generated headlines. Kylie Jenner, a frequent focus of ire, burned almost 5,000 […]

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What’s So Bad About … Nuclear Energy?

Leslie Garrett — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 15:54:23 +0000

Is it the low-carbon answer to keeping our lights on?

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