What Is the Cost of a Cashless Society?
The trend toward digital payment could shortchange the country’s most vulnerable
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Are Quebec’s Most Beautiful Islands Doomed to Disappear?
The Magdalen Islands are being swallowed up by rising sea levels, leaving islanders with a stark choice: flee or stay
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How the Pandemic Messed Up My Education
Students everywhere sat through months of experimental learning plans, and we’re only just starting to see the unintended consequences
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Don’t Have a Cow, Man: Why Young People Should Embrace a Future of Lab-Grown Meat
It might sound weird, but growing meat from cells could take a bite out of emissions and help with the climate crisis
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Ruffled Feathers: How Feral Peacocks Divided a Small Town
The birds were beloved. But they also chased garbage trucks, scratched cars, and feasted on vegetable patches
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The Joy, and Science, of Cold-Water Swimming
Depressive moods and menopausal turmoil drove me to a chilly “treatment” before I even knew there was such a thing
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Ask a Weather Expert: Is the Humidex Just Hot Air?
The formula was developed in 1965, but some experts say the sweaty signifier is flawed
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Why Climate Change Is Not an Environmental Issue
Misunderstanding the nature of the peril humanity faces is one reason climate politics has been so prone to frustration and despair
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