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MPI / Getty Pandemics Leave Us Forever Altered
What history can tell us about the long-term effects of the coronavirus
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Sergiy Barchuk Is There Still a Good Case for Water Fluoridation?
It’s a 75-year-old technology. Maybe we should rethink it.
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Ulises Fariñas Can Planet Earth Feed 10 Billion People?
Humanity has 30 years to find out.
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Josh Cochran How to Talk About Climate Change So People Will Listen
Environmentalists warn us that apocalypse awaits. Economists tell us that minimal fixes will get us through. Here's how we can move beyond the impasse.
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No, Really: We're Going to Keep Burning Oil—and Lots of It
No matter how much we wish it were otherwise, the economics favor burning fossil fuels.
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Yes, Unconventional Fossil Fuels Are That Big of a Deal
And the evidence is solid that they are well on their way to changing the world's energy choices.
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Ralph Wilson/AP What If We Never Run Out of Oil?
New technology and a little-known energy source suggest that fossil fuels may not be finite. This would be a miracle—and a nightmare.
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The Gangster In My Tub
The author finds himself in hot water at a Japanese onsen.
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Personal Genomics
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How Not to Travel in Japan
Our correspondent flouts the Three Laws of Tourism there— and has a spectacular trip
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The Coming Death Shortage
Why the longevity boom will make us sorry to be alive
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Homeland Insecurity
A top expert says America's approach to protecting itself will only make matters worse. Forget "foolproof" technology—we need systems designed to fail smartly
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A Primer on Public-key Encryption
From "Homeland Insecurity," by Charles C. Mann
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C. F. Payne 1491
Before it became the New World, the Western Hemisphere was vastly more populous and sophisticated than has been thought.
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The Heavenly Jukebox
Rampant music piracy may hurt musicians less than they fear. The real threat—to listeners and, conceivably, democracy itself—is the music industry's reaction to it
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Living With Linux
A new cost-free and crash-free alternative to Windows and Macintosh operating systems provides freedom at a price
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Who Will Own Your Next Good Idea?
Some corporations want to lock up copyright even tighter. Some naive intellectuals want to abandon copyright altogether. Where is a "do-nothing" Congress now that we need one?
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The Geography of Endangermen
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The Prostate Cancer Dilemma
The country is embarking on a huge screening program for prostate cancer which is likely to cost billions and may lead to many unnecessary operations, especially for elderly patients. But what may be bad at the national-policy level could be a lifesaver at the individual level for men in their fifties and early sixties.
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How Many Is Too Many?
Biologists have argued for a century that an ever-growing population will bring the apocalypse. Economists argue that man and markets will cope—so far none of the predicted apocalypses have arrived. The near-term questions, though, are political, and they are overlooked in the fierce battles
