Author: British Day

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Marijuana will soon be legalized in Canada, and the U.S. government will soon follow suit as more states welcome marijuana. Marijuana as a crop is worth “more than $40 billion, making it the second most valuable crop in the United States after corn.” Who would benefit most from legalized cannabis? Not governments, but the biotech industry. GQ, Amanda Chicago Lewis We are trying to find out who is behind the faceless, secretive companies fighting over a strict, all-encompassing utility patent on cannabis that gives them the monopoly power to sue anyone who tries to grow or sell cannabis without buying…

Adrian Daub | Longreads | August 2017 | 20 minutes (5,033 words) 1. “The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast Map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars […].”— Jorge Luis Borges, “On Exactitude in Science” I spent my adolescence around maps of places that didn’t exist. An older cousin read…

Jack Elhai | Long Read | April 2017 | 6 minutes (1,500 words) Last year was the third consecutive year of record heat. Glaciers and polar ice are melting, plant and animal species are rapidly becoming extinct, and sea levels are rising. It is clear that the impacts of climate change are enormous. Does anyone think we are at the dawn of a new ice age? If you had asked this question just 40 years ago, a surprising number of people would have said yes, including climate scientists. April 28, 1975 newsweek Author and science editor Peter Gwyn published a…