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How to Eat Climate Change
Considering all of the recent talk about global warming, it’s time to start considering what will happen when the freeways collapse and the Pacific Ocean starts to boil and the La Brea tarpits open up again. What will we eat in LA?
Portland Bands Are Competing in a Basketball Tournament Using a Hoop Attached to a Tour Van
The van is parked in front of strip clubs, cul-de-sacs, and in alleyways—two bands face off until a champion emerges or the cops break it up. Or until the game dissolves into a drunken roman candle fight.
Drones Mapped the Philippines to Improve Typhoon Aid Efforts
Where communities only have outdated satellite images and hand-drawn plans, drones created impressively detailed maps.
What We Shouldn't Be Doing in the Wake of Typhoon Yolanda
In the Philippines, a familiar pattern is playing out in the headlines, and these expectations could lead to more death.
There Are Now 100 People Who Refuse to Eat Until Leaders Take On Climate Change
At the chaotic climate talks in Warsaw, a hunger strike has arisen to shame world leaders into action.
Cold Cave, Trenchgrinder, Head Automatica and the Long Hours After Typhoon Haiyan
How a destructive storm half a world away caused panic and fear amongst a pair of musician brothers
What We Shouldn't Be Doing in the Wake of Typhoon Yolanda
As a foreign correspondent, I have paid witness to many natural disasters and have seen first responders expect situations to unfold according to a set pattern. In the Philippines, a familiar pattern is playing out in the headlines, and these...
If Drones Are the Future of Search and Rescue, Why Aren't They In the Philippines Right Now?
Drone proponents have plugged them as being useful for setting up on-the-fly wireless networks, delivering vaccines, and finding missing people. The Philippines could use all of that right now.