Why Politicians Lie—and How Easy Money Keeps the Boom Alive
On this episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton opens with a review of John Mearsheimer’s Why Do Politicians Lie?, focusing ...
Thursday, November 5, 2026
Tag: Alive
Greenland sharks can live more than 400 years, meaning some swimming the North Atlantic today may have been alive when Isaac Newton was, while parasites cloud their corneas without destroying the retina behind them
Somewhere a kilometer below the surface of the North Atlantic, in water just above freezing, a shark drifts. A copepod ...
A single aspen colony in Utah called Pando covers 106 acres, weighs 6,000 tons, and is genetically one organism connected by a root system that may have been alive for 14,000 years and is now slowly being eaten to death by mule deer
Crouch down in the understory at Pando and the story is in the soil. Aspen suckers, finger-thin and pale, push ...
Psychology says the most isolating part of getting older isn’t having fewer people around you — it’s having fewer people who knew you when you were whole and fast and full of plans, because the version of you that exists in other people’s memory is shrinking at the same rate as the guest list, and one day you’ll be the only person alive who remembers what you were capable of
I used to think the hardest part about getting older would be the physical stuff. The knees that complain when ...
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