Locating risk and moral boundaries in a radioactive world.

By Tim Connor

In writing recently about the radioactive consequences of Fukushima, I made use of a banana. It was handy. A simple banana, chock full of healthy, life-giving potassium—99.988 percent of which is not radioactive.

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John Kerry, Edward Snowden, and America’s Moral Injuries

By Larry Shook

Maybe it’s just my own PTSD talking, but I don’t think Secretary of State John Kerry is the first U.S. cabinet official in my lifetime to be guilty of cruel irony. Continue reading A Prayer for the Secretary →

What my mens group taught me about politics, science, and climate change.

By Tim Connor

As Marco Rubio, the ambitious U.S. Senator from Florida recently demonstrated, people will say almost anything to get elected. In Rubio’s case, it matters not that we are only decades away from seeing large tracts of his home state recovered by the Atlantic Ocean. Continue reading Tipping Points →

Dan Treecraft may have been the most difficult friend a person could have. He was also irreplaceable, and widely beloved.

By Jamie Borgan (September 4, 2011)

One of my earliest memories of Dan Treecraft comes from a wedding, where he told me I might get strawberry diabetes if I didn’t stop eating strawberries off of the buffet table. Continue reading A Splendid Enigma →