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The Shift to Renewable Energy Can Give More Power to the People

environment, weather and energy

The pandemic has driven a lot of people outdoors: reports show that park visits are up around the world and parking lots at hiking trails are packed. That’s understandable—by now you’d need to chop down a sizable forest to print out the studies showing that time in nature reduces stress, cuts healing times, and enhances the functioning of the immune system. As Sadie Dingfelder wrote in the Washington Post in December, “I’ve always found it relaxing and rejuvenating to be outdoors, but the anxiety and isolation of the pandemic, the uncertainty of civil unrest and, oh, I don’t know, the potential crumbling of American democracy have made me crave nature like a drug.”
The New Yorker     Mar 04, 2021

Learning to Love My Microwave

Lifestyle

Like so many of the most banal tools of modern life—duct tape, tampons, canned soup, the Internet—the microwave oven was born from the industry of war. Its key element: magnetron tubes, tiny, complicated devices that (I am given to understand) generate super-energetic shortwave radio waves, which can be put to all sorts of exciting purposes, among them efficiently heating up water. Before the Second World War, magnetron tubes were clunky and expensive to build, but the Allied Forces’ strategic reliance on radar required them by the thousands. Percy Spencer, an engineer at Raytheon—now a massive defense contractor, though at the time a relatively tiny one—developed a method to mass-produce them, and by the end of the war Raytheon was manufacturing nearly all of them. Almost as soon as the Allies declared victory, the company filed a U.S. patent application for a device that repurposed all those military magnetrons for cooking—an atomic-age version of beating one’s swords into plowshares.
The New Yorker     Mar 03, 2021

Billie Eilish’s Unconventional Pop-Star Documentary

Lifestyle

If teen-age pop stars were once saddled with pressure to maintain their perfect images, today they face the equally weighty burden of appearing perfectly imperfect: authentic, flawed, and wholly honest, at all times. In “Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry,” the new documentary about the ascent of the anti-pop star Billie Eilish, a debate erupts between the musician (then seventeen years old), her mother, and Chelsea Dodson, who is one of the film’s producers. Eilish is wondering whether or not to speak out publicly against drugs, alcohol, and smoking, none of which she partakes in. “My only thought is how, like, you say things, and then maybe you grow up and feel differently,” Dodson says, “And then get dragged for it.” Eilish’s mother interjects, exasperated. “Wait a second. Are you actually not going to let her be authentic to who she is now in case she grows up to do drugs?” she asks. But Eilish understands the great risks associated with saying one thing now and doing another later. “Well, she’s right though,” she tells her mother. These are the sorts of calculations that Eilish, who appears to exercise total control over her creative output, must make from moment to moment. At times, being real seems like such an exhausting endeavor that it’s easy to see why so many stars who’ve come before Eilish have chosen the alternative. Nobody could blame Eilish for the amount of sulking she does throughout the film’s drifty two hours and twenty minutes.
The New Yorker     Mar 03, 2021

Ten Types of Neighbors You May Encounter in an Apartment Complex

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The New Yorker     Mar 03, 2021

“The Apology Line”: Confessions, Lies, and Audiotape

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In New York City, from 1980 until the mid-nineties, an artist named Allan Bridge, known to the public only as Mr. Apology, conducted a social experiment and art project from his Manhattan loft. He advertised it around town on posters with language combining step-right-up carnival-barker whimsy with straight-talking New York grit. “ATTENTION AMATEURS, PROFESSIONALS, CRIMINALS,” they read. “BLUE-COLLAR, WHITE COLLAR. YOU HAVE WRONGED PEOPLE. IT IS TO PEOPLE THAT YOU MUST APOLOGIZE, NOT TO THE STATE, NOT TO GOD. GET YOUR MISDEEDS OFF YOUR CHEST!” The poster told people to anonymously call Apology, a “private experiment” unaffiliated with the police, and to “describe in detail what you have done and how you feel about it.” The messages would be recorded, the poster said, and, at some point, played for the public.
The New Yorker     Mar 03, 2021

Is the Vatican Finally Ready to Get Serious About Women in the Church?

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For more than fifty years, people calling for change in the Catholic Church have rooted their ideas in the Latin maxim Ecclesia semper reformanda. Attributed to St. Augustine and made familiar by the modern Swiss Protestant theologian Karl Barth, it means “the Church is always in need of reform.” It informed the liberalizing, modernizing Second Vatican Council, and, after the Council concluded, in 1965, became a credo for progressives such as Hans Küng, the Swiss Catholic theologian who believed that the Council hadn’t gone far enough. Twenty years later, under Pope John Paul II, it became a rationale for traditionalists seeking a sort of Counter-Reformation. In 2016, Pope Francis pushed back, stating that there will be no “reform of the reform,” at least not in liturgical practice. Now, with people in Rome anticipating the completion, after more than two years, of one of Francis’s signature initiatives—a reform of the Vatican bureaucracy, known as the Curia—the Latin maxim is back on the agenda.
The New Yorker     Mar 03, 2021

Biden’s Tepid Message to Putin, Navalny, and Autocrats

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On Tuesday, the Biden Administration announced a set of sanctions against Russia, in response to its attempted assassination, this past August, of the opposition politician Alexey Navalny with a nerve agent. The sanctions were at once more than any U.S. Administration had done and less than would seem rational or proportionate if viewed purely as a response to an attempted murder. In other words, the sanctions were very much like the ones that the Administration announced last week against Saudi Arabia, following the release of an intelligence report about the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi by agents of the Saudi government: a case in which less is less, even if it is also more than was done before.
The New Yorker     Mar 03, 2021

Republicans Accuse Biden of Trying to Score Political Points by Ending Pandemic

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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—After Joe Biden announced that there would be enough vaccine for all adult Americans by the end of May, leading Republicans accused the President of trying to score political points by ending the pandemic.
The New Yorker     Mar 03, 2021

Updated Horror-Movie Tropes

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The horror genre’s tropes are some of the most well worn in cinema—you’ve got the jock, the stoner, the token Black character, and the virginal female lead. But contemporary audiences have begun to tire of these stereotypes. So here is a sampling of some new character tropes that any big-shot Hollywood dealmaker who is reading this is free to use, so long as they give me full credit and compensation.
The New Yorker     Mar 03, 2021

The Jazz Pianist Using a Computer Program to Play with Other Musicians in Quarantine

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Last April, in the midst of the pandemic’s first wave, the jazz pianist Dan Tepfer was on a call with his friend Ben Wendel, a jazz saxophonist. Wendel had flown to Maui just before the lockdown, and now he was stuck there—not so terrible, except that he was desperate to play music with friends back in New York. He asked Tepfer, a self-taught coder, whether any technology existed that would let him play in real time with someone so far away. Tepfer, who lives in Brooklyn, did a quick calculation: Wendel was forty-nine hundred miles from New York; a flawless signal, travelling at the speed of light from Maui, would take twenty-six milliseconds to arrive. Studies showed that faster rhythms couldn’t be coherently sustained with time lags longer than twenty milliseconds or so. He told Wendel, “Conclusion: it will never happen by sheer laws of physics.”
The New Yorker     Mar 03, 2021

Tanya Selvaratnam on Eric Schneiderman, Andrew Cuomo, and the Abuse of Power

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In early 2018, a friend called me to say that I ought to speak with a colleague of hers, a filmmaker and writer named Tanya Selvaratnam. During our first conversation, Selvaratnam told me that she had recently been in an abusive relationship with the then New York attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, a Democrat who had publicly fashioned himself as a champion of women’s rights. She sent me a manuscript that extensively detailed the physical and verbal abuse that she had suffered at his hands, and wondered whether I would consider publishing it. This was in the thick of a great deal of #MeToo reporting at The New Yorker, the Times, and other publications. We talked many times, by phone and at a café downtown, and agreed that the best path forward would be for her to speak with New Yorker reporters, who would then work to see if there was evidence of similar behavior by Schneiderman with other women.
The New Yorker     Mar 03, 2021

In Myanmar, A Digital-Savvy Nation Poses a New Challenge for the Military

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Not long after midnight on February 1st, a squad of Myanmar Army soldiers surrounded a housing complex in the nation’s capital, where elected leaders had gathered before parliament was to convene that morning. Another team was descending on the data centers of one of the largest telecommunications companies in the country. Inside, engineers were up late, upgrading the networks while there was minimal traffic. According to one senior engineer, the soldiers forced the team to turn off some equipment, and cut the wires to other systems. At another major telecommunications company, this one co-owned by the military, there was no need to slash cables; employees obeyed the shutdown orders, an engineer said. But, at both locations, the soldiers stood guard over the data centers with guns.
The New Yorker     Mar 02, 2021

The Grubby Glamour of Juergen Teller’s Photography

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A few years ago, I worked at a style magazine that was running a cover story featuring Kanye West, with pictures shot by Juergen Teller, one of the world’s leading fashion photographers. In one image, West could be seen standing in front of a white backdrop, presumably in a photo studio. He wore a black T-shirt, jeans, and boots—his only adornment a thin gold chain—and his arms were thrown limply to his sides. With his eyes closed and his upturned features lit by the harsh glare of a flash, he looked genuinely drained, but also, somehow, glamorous, in his indifferent surrender to the viewer’s gaze. On the night of the issue’s close, as I was printing out the story in order to proofread it, I looked down and realized that I was wearing the same outfit as West: a black T-shirt, jeans, and a thin gold chain. Spreading my arms and throwing my head back against the copy room’s white wall, I asked my co-worker Shawn to take my picture. It was three in the morning—the magazine’s issue closes tended to run punishingly late—and in the photo, which Shawn took with his iPhone, I was captured as I stood, exhausted, next to the Xerox machine, in the sharp neon glare of a midtown office. This was no posh photo studio in London, and I was certainly no Kanye. Still, when the two photos were placed side by side, their aesthetic was not so different.
The New Yorker     Mar 02, 2021

Trump’s Strategy for Returning to Power Is Already Clear

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Viktor Orbán became the Prime Minister of Hungary in 1998. Four years later, with a record number of Hungarians turning up to the polls, his party lost power. The next day, Orbán’s allies claimed voter fraud and demanded recounts, and although these demands were rejected, Orbán continued to claim that the election had been stolen. In 2010, after eight years leading the opposition, Orbán and his party, Fidesz, returned to power with a supermajority—enough to change the constitution and begin rapidly consolidating autocratic power. Orbán has not left office in the decade since.
The New Yorker     Mar 02, 2021

Jonathan Lethem Reads “The Crooked House”

art and culture

Jonathan Lethem reads his story from the March 8, 2021, issue of the magazine. Lethem is the author of seventeen books of fiction, including the novels “Motherless Brooklyn,” “The Feral Detective,” and, most recently, “The Arrest,” which was published last year.
The New Yorker     Mar 02, 2021

When the Kids Started Getting Sick

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On an evening in August, 2008, Cindy Valent learned that her twenty-year-old son, Curt, was in the hospital. Valent, who was fifty-three, with frosted hair and a matter-of-fact manner, lived in Cecil, a small town in southwestern Pennsylvania, which has become a hub of the natural-gas industry. For nearly a year, Curt, a junior at Robert Morris University, had been complaining that his shoulder hurt. That weekend, while with his girlfriend, Erin, he began running a fever and having chest pains. “I thought it was no big deal,” Valent told me recently. In the evening, routine imaging at the hospital revealed a spot near his lung. A few weeks later, Curt was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, a virulent form of bone cancer, which had spread to his lungs, liver, lymph nodes, and spleen.
The New Yorker     Mar 02, 2021

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The New Yorker     Mar 02, 2021

What Is Mathematics?

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A while ago, I got interested in mathematics, mostly because I had done so poorly at it in school. I’m being coy. I didn’t do poorly; I pretty much failed. I only passed by cheating. Anyway, I bought a copy of “Algebra for Dummies” to see whether I could improve, but it turned out that I didn’t like algebra as an adult any more than I had as a boy. Even so, I was determined to see whether I could understand why I hadn’t been able to learn it. Doing teen-age mathematics as an older person, though, was harder than I had expected it to be, and I’m not sure how long I could have kept going if I hadn’t become aware, mostly from reading books about mathematics and talking to mathematicians, that outside my overheated room at the Algebra Hotel, mathematics had a grandeur and reach that I hadn’t even suspected. I then spent more of my time trying to learn what I could of its qualities.
The New Yorker     Mar 02, 2021