Quartz, cobalt, and the waste we leave behind


by MIT Technology Review

MIT Technology Review— Some time before the first dinosaurs, two supercontinents, Laurasia and Gondwana, collided, forcing molten rock out from the depths of the Earth. As eons passed, the liquid rock cooled and geological forces carved this rocky fault line into Pico Sacro, a strange conical peak that sits like a wizard’s hat near the northwestern corner of…

The Romania Journal—What Romanians leave behind in their Uber rides?. According to Uber eighth annual Lost & Found Index, in Romania, Bucharest is the most forgetful city, being on the sixth place in the list of forgetful European cities. The index also features which times of day and days of the week folks forget items most, and of course, tips on how to reunite them […]

Washington Examiner—Congress must not leave child victims behind. Supporting victims of violent crime, especially the youngest and most vulnerable of those victims, is among my most solemn responsibilities in the House of Representatives. For young survivors and their families, the criminal justice system can be an intimidating maze of questions, legal challenges, and hardships that, when added to the trauma of the underlying […]

The Race—As Newey leaves, who is really behind Red Bull F1 dominance?. As Adrian Newey's departure from Red Bull has come into view, so too has the question of how involved he's been in the generation of cars that have dominated F1's current ground effect era. Mark Hughes explains why that's a simplistic question without a black and white answer