The Spillover From Sorting (and Not Sorting) Trash At first glance Shanghai’s new trash-sorting law looks easy. Just deposit your plastic, paper, textiles, metal, and glass in the blue recyclables bin. Then, the brown bin gets the wet trash and the black one, the dry stuff. Lastly, anything hazardous like pesticides, batteries, or lightbulbs have […]
Are You a Takeoffs or Landings Person? One morning this spring, I drove past the quiet municipal airport in Pittsfield, Mass. I couldn’t stop myself from slowing down and smiling as I looked out on the place where, nearly 30 years ago, I first got airborne as a pilot. I remember strapping my 16-year-old self […]
Twitter Needs a Pause Button As a shooter in Christchurch, New Zealand, set about massacring dozens of worshippers at two mosques on March 15, his body cam beamed live footage to social media. Soon after, Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of YouTube, learned that it was being uploaded to the platform. The company put thousands of […]
