Last week there was an eye-opening infographic in The New York Times showing the escalating disappearance of two of Antarctica’s glaciers into the Amundsen Sea. The piece’s graphics were almost more astonishing than the facts themselves, for they showed a truly bird’s eye view of the southernmost parts ofread more

1 When I was in school, my extended family members used to mock me during the summer for the stack of books I always had on my nightstand, which often extended pool-side. I’d get deep wrinkles on the backs of my thighs from sitting onread more