This month, the old diesel-powered Governors Island ferry will be retired, and the Harbor Charger—New York’s first hybrid-electric ferry—will (quietly) hit the water.| The New Yorker
As researchers work to make death optional, investors see a chance for huge returns. But has the human body already reached its limits?| The New Yorker
In the early nineteen-hundreds, Josip Mikulec walked the globe, collecting famous signatures (Thomas Edison, Teddy Roosevelt, Admiral Tōgō). Now the mayor of his Croatian home town has purchased the three-thousand-page tome.| The New Yorker
With a new proposal, the Trump Administration, which has already laid waste to dozens of programs aimed at limiting climate change, has managed to outdo itself.| The New Yorker
It’s the fault people humblebrag about in job interviews, but psychologists are discovering more and more about the real harm it causes.| The New Yorker