“I’m going to enjoy seeing it bend out of the way that you thought it was going to go.” Halo TV series cast and showrunner talk Season 2, disrupting hierarchies, and the incoming fall of Reach.

“Crisis.” So says David Wiener, new showrunner for Halo The Series Season 2, when I ask him what single word he’d choose to describe this season’s story arc. I recently had the chance to speak with some of the team on Halo The Series Season 2, with actors Bokeem Woodbine (Spider-Man: Homecoming, Fargo, Queen & […]

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Gas Drilling Is Disrupting Animal Migration

In general, it’s surprising how little ecologists know about why large animals choose their migration paths. The motivations for moving are obvious, and include things like food, water, and a safe place to raise young. But how herds or animals learn their routes is a major debate. Evolution plays some role. There are signs of […]

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Climate Change Is Disrupting the Global Supply Chain Too

Supply chains are, in essence, strings of potential bottlenecks. Each stopping point is a node in a tree-like system that conveys raw materials from the system’s farthest tendrils to sub-assemblers along its roots to manufacturers, who are the system’s trunk. Products like smartphones possess hundreds of components whose raw materials are transported from all over […]

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