Greta Thunberg

Thunberg urges climate action because 'people are dying'

More essential than ever, Robert Cialdini's absolute classic book outlining six principles that you can use to convince people to do things and/or defend yourself against coercion. The science in this book is solid, the experiments and examples are unforgetta…

Theres nowhere you can go to escape the political hell weve been living in since 2016 not even on dating apps, apparently. On Thursday, Tinder released its year in review, called The Year in Swipe - What 2019 Taught Us About the Future of Dating. Among other…

Anthropocene, LOL

Greta Thunberg was on the wrong side of the world. She'd taken 14 days to cross the Atlantic on a carbon-neutral journey via boat for climate change summits in the US and Chile. But at the last minute political unrest meant the Chile talks moved to Spain. …

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption An image showing carbon dioxide emissions over the Earth A critical 12 months in the battle against rising temperatures begins in Madrid this week, as UN delegates gather for key talks. The 25th Conference of the …

Ben S. Bernanke, Timothy F. Geithner, and Henry M. Paulson, editors, with Nellie Liang.  First Responders: Inside the U.S. Strategy For Fighting the 2007-2009 Global Financial Crisis.  Too many people will judge this volume by its editors, for better or worse…

Tens of thousands of protesters have rallied in cities across the world, demanding more action on climate change and aiming to force political leaders to come up with urgent solutions at a United Nations conference next week. The demonstrations kicked off in…

Image copyrightGetty Images One day in late August 2018, Greta Thunberg took up position outside Sweden's Parliament for the first time. She held a simple sign, black letters on a white board, that said "School Strike for Climate." "It felt like I was the o…

Found in the the University of Washington Libraries’s Special Collections, this c.1898 photo of badass climate activist Greta Thunberg proves that she is a time traveler who is here to save us from ourselves. Or, perhaps Twitter user @bucketofmoney is correct…