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How To Price a Forest, and Other Economics Problems

A Cambridge economist discusses wealth, health, and disaster.

July 2, 2014

Cloudy With a Chance of War

His weather forecasts changed the world. Could his predictions of war?

June 25, 2014

When Good Waves Go Rogue

Even in calm seas, waves can become monsters.

June 25, 2014

When Good Waves Go Rogue

Even in calm seas, waves can become monsters.

June 25, 2014

Fish School Us on Wind Power

Record-efficiency turbine farms are being inspired by sealife.

June 25, 2014

Meet the Father of Digital Life

This maverick forerunner of artificial life and animation remains largely unknown.

May 30, 2014

The Computer Maverick Who Modeled the Evolution of Life

Nils Aall Barricelli showed that organisms evolved by symbiosis and cooperation.

May 30, 2014

Math Shall Set You Free—From Envy

How to do divorce, divestment, and death properly.

April 25, 2014

Impossible Cookware and Other Triumphs of the Penrose Tile

Infinite patterns that never repeat have moved from fantasy to reality.

April 25, 2014

The Vulgar Mechanic and His Magical Oven

A Renaissance alchemist pioneers feedback control.

April 7, 2014