Last month, in Tina Turner’s hometown of Brownsville, Tennessee, a bronze statue honoring the late singer was erected.  When famous people die, people want to remember them. A statue goes up, and people start remembering. The thing about the Tina Turner statue is that it is, as fans pointed out, extremely ugly and looks nothing […]

When President Donald Trump first took office in 2017, it wasn’t self-evident that the transgender community, in particular, had anything to fear. Prior to his presidency, Trump had said largely positive, or at least tolerant, things about LGBTQ+ people. He said he had no problem hiring gay people and supported amending the 1964 Civil Rights […]

Your electricity bill is rising. Naturally, you’re mad about it and looking around at who to blame. But it’s not a who, it’s a what — and the recent AI-driven data center construction spree is at least partly the reason why. Copious data centers have sprung up across the United States, nearly doubling in number […]

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It could revolutionize human health — or it could spell our doom. It really depends on who you ask. I’m not talking about potentially risky biodefense lab research, but something that doesn’t yet exist: mirror life. Here’s a refresher on normal biology: The cells in our bodies are composed of the building blocks of life. […]