Stories by a_w

From Andes to Tibet, Covid-19 seems to be sparing populations at high altitudes

A North Dakota bank gave its state a lift in the PPP small-business program

Scientists create tool to forecast where East Africa’s locusts will land next

Norway and the A-ha moment that made electric cars the answer

Erased from history: how Sydney destroyed its trams for love of the car

Making Video Games Is Not a Dream Job

The Daily Lottery Was Originally a Harlem Game. Then Albany Wanted In

The Art of Watchmaking – In Pictures

Where did all those 90s rollerblades end up? Nairobi

How to create your own vanilla JavaScript DOM manipulation library like jQuery

Students protest Zuckerberg-backed digital learning program

Experiment that ended in 1767 still linked to higher incomes, education levels

Owning your own home doesn’t make you rich. Owning somebody else’s does

The rise of the robot farmer

Mega Millions tweaked the odds to create monster jackpots. It worked

'I leave the car at home': how free buses are revolutionising one French city

Tiny Nanoparticles to Treat a Huge Problem: Snakebites

Black holes and soft hair: why Stephen Hawking's final work is important

Large-scale wind and solar farms in the Sahara increase rain and vegetation

I survived the Warsaw ghetto. Here are the lessons I’d like to pass on

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