Author: Errica Jensen

In Tacloban, the sea frequently appears innocuous just before sunrise, flattening into a drab grey sheet. As waves roll in, fishing boats sit tilted in the sand, their ropes making a soft creaking sound. However, there is currently a hesitancy, a silent pause before anyone leaves. Without the use of scientific tools, fishermen might be able to detect changes beneath the surface. Life has always included cyclones throughout the Pacific. They were anticipated, prepared for, and recovered from by people as they grew up. However, it seems like storms are acting differently these days, intensifying at an unusual rate, bringing…

The forest doesn’t abruptly end close to Mato Grosso’s edge. It becomes thinner. Trees start to get dispersed. Then all of a sudden, the land opens up into something completely different: endless rows of precisely aligned, nearly sterile soybeans stretching toward the horizon. One gets the impression that the change took time while standing at that imperceptible line. However, it didn’t take long either. It has been astounding to watch Brazil become a soy superpower. The United States dominated world exports twenty years ago. Currently, about 40% of the soy used to feed livestock in China, Europe, and other countries…

Not a memorable line or a dramatic scene is the first thing that comes to mind after watching Do Deewane Shaher Mein. It’s the quiet in between talks. People left the theater slowly, without hurrying or chatting much. They might have been processing it at the time. Or perhaps they were attempting to determine whether or not anything had actually occurred. The movie centers on Shashank and Roshni, two individuals who carry their personal fears like invisible baggage against the tense backdrop of Mumbai. Shashank, portrayed by Siddhant Chaturvedi, is a marketing expert whose confidence is subtly shaped by a…

Even before the movie started, the theater seemed abnormally noisy. Kids were fidgeting in their seats, kicking chair backs, and gripping big buckets of popcorn. Goat didn’t introduce the story slowly when it did start. It exploded onto the screen, plunging viewers into a roarball arena brimming with neon lights and unfathomable speed. One gets the impression from watching those first few minutes that the movie doesn’t want viewers to be patient. It seeks out adrenaline. The story is fundamentally quite straightforward. Will, a tiny goat with a lot of energy and a lot of ambition, gets drafted into a…

Assi, which is directed by Anubhav Sinha, a filmmaker who has steadily shifted from traditional narrative to something incisive and more political, comes with an urgency that is hard to ignore. The topic itself—sexual violence, justice, and the uneasy apparatus that sits between crime and accountability—may be the source of this urgency, but it also seems as though Sinha has lost interest in nuance. The protagonist of the movie is Parima, a survivor whose life has been subtly altered by violence, who is portrayed with unnerving restraint by Kani Kusruti. There are no dramatic monologues from her character. Rather, her…

Recent satellite photos show the ice to be brittle, almost tentative. The language used by scientists who are researching these patterns has changed. Not so sure. Exercise more caution. 2026 might end up being one of those years that is later referred to as a turning point, even though not many people realized it at the time. Historically, the Arctic has melted in the summer and frozen in the winter. That cycle characterized it. However, things have changed. Once appearing to be a permanent rhythm, temperatures in the region have risen three to four times faster than the global average.…

As is often the case, the cold came stealthily. Overnight, sidewalks solidified into glass, automobile windshields became opaque, and breath hung in the air like smoke. People in Chicago automatically pulled their coats tighter when they saw the ghostly swirls of steam rising off Lake Michigan. It’s difficult to ignore how intimately cold weather feels, how it clings to your skin and won’t go away. However, the Earth is warming at the same time. People have been uneasy about that contradiction for years. Politicians have made fun of it, neighbors have debated it over dinner, and even scientists, at least…

The Milky Way stretches across the sky like a faint bruise on a clear night far from city lights. Sagittarius A*, our galaxy’s invisible anchor, is located somewhere in that hazy band, hidden behind distance and dust. Astronomers have been talking about it with a certain quiet assurance for decades. an extremely massive black hole. In the dark, four million suns were crushed. Some physicists are hesitant, though, except now. There is a chance that Sagittarius A* is not even a black hole. Einstein’s equations have ruled with almost religious authority in some academic hallways, and that statement still sounds…

When people discuss breast milk in the same way that they discuss used electronics or furniture, it’s unnerving. Posts like “100 ounces frozen,” “dairy-free donor,” and “local pickup only” blend together when you browse through specific parenting groups on the internet. Occasionally, a sweet and comforting picture of a baby is included, seemingly as evidence of innocence. These pictures may be intended to foster trust, but they also give away how intimate and vulnerable this new market is. At midnight, a mother might be standing over her freezer in a quiet suburban kitchen, carefully writing labels on plastic bags. After…

Depending on your position, the “portable fusion reactor” line lands in a different way. It sounds like provocation in a seminar room at a university. It can sound like marketing is taking precedence over metal on a windy industrial site, where temporary fencing, cables, and scaffolding are still the most common technologies. However, there is a feeling that the fusion community in the UK is purposefully using offensive language. Their goal is to transform fusion from a “majestic science project” into something more like a product roadmap, complete with suppliers, deadlines, and awkward cost discussions—not because the physics became instantly…