by Brian Collins & J.A. Ginsburg (originally published by The Dieline) 2021. The year climate change got real. Flooded subways became a thing. “Extreme weather” became “weather.” Record rains washed away an entire town in Germany, while cars bobbed in streets-turned-to-rivers in Italy, France, Spain, England and New England. …

COVID’s evil twin, Long COVID, can be as dangerous — and potentially even more debilitating — as the original infection. “Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2,” or PASC as it is officially known, is a suite of symptoms that afflicts as many as a third of all patients with profound fatigue, dizziness…

“I thought of you,” my friend texted in the middle of the night. He sent along a link to a website filled with cosmic panoramas, evidence of a bigger scheme of things, and also the remarkable patience of a photographer who took years to meticulously assemble the images. So many…

on grids, floods, texas, power, equity, china, AI, finance, the future of war and what’s next — The near-collapse of the electric grid in Texas didn’t have to happen. But because it did, we now know that in the United States in 2021 a child can die of hypothermia because the power goes out. …

I am pro-vaccine. I support science and scientists and public health experts. But now that the Pfizer/BioNTech, two-dose Covid vaccine has been approved and the push is on to create, “an Operation Warp Speed for vaccine communication,” I find myself at odds with the prevailing narrative — or at least…

In the Age of Covid, nothing personifies the grassroots, can-do American spirit more than the DIY face mask. Almost overnight an army of “sewists” started uploading how-to videos on YouTube, then posting them on social media feeds, and comparing notes on patterns and materials. This was much more than a…

When the President referred to the man who was the first US fatality in COVID-19 outbreak as a “wonderful woman” during a nationally televised press conference, it may have been an honest mistake, a gaffe later attributed to lack of sleep. …

Could COVID-19, the all-but-officially-designated pandemic now threatening to tip the world into global recession, help fix the American healthcare system? It may be a case of making lemonade from a giant lemon of a disaster, but also could be a campaign issue ready for its close up. A global pandemic…

“Only a system can be sustainable.” — Mark Miodownik, materials scientist and author of Stuff Matters If all carbon emissions ceased tomorrow — if every country that originally signed onto the Paris Accord more than met is commitment — atmospheric carbon levels (CO2) would still continue to rise. Decarbonization is…