Opinion

For the Love of Critters

If you’re an animal lover like me, you know there’s a lot more to like about animals besides the fact that some of them are tasty. “Animals are such agreeable friends,” wrote the English poet and novelist George Eliot. “They ask no questions,…

I, Smartphone – The Stream

Make mine a cup of praseodymium with a terbium or two on the side, please. Make it snappy! Beautiful blue cobalt, a ferromagnetic metal with atomic number 27, is inside your smartphone, too. Presently, almost all of it comes from the African…

You Can Just DO Things

In the subculture of the vibe-driven new right that suffuses much of MAGA world in the northeastern corridor, one of the commonplaces is the assurance that, whatever the putative obstacles at hand, “you can just do things.” It’s an invocation at…