Life in The Grim Old Days
Chelsea Follett's new history shows how wretched life was before the industrial revolution, but our escape from it began long before the steam engine.
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Musk Is Enticed by the Lunar Siren
Elon Musk should remain focused on Mars; diverting to the Moon would be a mistake.
What We Can Create on Mars
Mars contains all the materials needed to support not only life but technological civilization.
Why We Should Settle Mars
Space exploration will bring us inventions that benefit humanity. And it will help us avoid war.
How Accurate is Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’?
A nuclear engineer reviews the blockbuster film.
A Declaration of Decadence
Mary Jane Rubenstein’s real target in “Astrotopia” is not the corporate space race, but the very ideas of humanism and progress.
Malthusian Theory Has Always Been False
Rethinking Limits: What Superabundance Gets Right About Human Progress.
How We Can Get Clean Energy—What Needs to Be Done?
Editor's note: this is the third in a three-part series on how we can get clean energy. Part I explains the relationship between Fuel and Human Progress, Part II answers the question “Is Nuclear Power Safe?” and Part III provides an answer to “What Needs to Be
How We Can Get Clean Energy—Is Nuclear Power Safe?
Editor's note: this is the second in a three-part series on how we can get clean energy. Part I explains the relationship between Fuel and Human Progress, Part II answers the question “Is Nuclear Power Safe?” and Part III provides an answer to “What Needs to Be
How We Can Get Clean Energy—Fuel and Human Progress
Editor's note: this is the first in a three part series on how we can get clean energy. Part I details Fuel and Human Progress, Part II answers the question "Is Nuclear Power Safe?" and Part III provides an answer to "What Needs to Be
Fusion Power is Coming
On February 8th, scientists associated with the Joint European Torus (JET) fusion experimental facility located in Oxfordshire, UK, announced that they had achieved a sustained fusion reaction releasing 11 megawatts of thermonuclear fusion power burning a deuterium-tritium plasma mixture continuously for five seconds. Nuclear fusion energy major breakthrough, created