Kim Tingley

Nov 12, 2024 | nytimes.com | Kim Tingley

There are two opposite paths to achievement in science. The first is straightforward: Identify a problem and set about solving it. The second is rather unscientific-sounding and perhaps more faith-based: Study in obscurity and hope serendipity strikes. In 1980, a young gastroenterologist named Jean-Pierre Raufman wound up taking the latter road through the digestive-diseases branch of the National Institutes of Health. His goal there was to gain research experience.

Feb 27, 2024 | lactualite.com | Kim Tingley

En tant qu’incubateur de la vie, la Terre possède des atouts formidables, un fait qu’on a tendance à ne pas apprécier à sa juste valeur quand on est confortablement installé dans son cocon. Or, envoyer des sondes et des véhicules astromobiles sur la Lune et sur Mars ne nous suffit pas. Pour diverses raisons — goût de l’aventure, hantise de l’apocalypse, recherche de profits —, nous insistons pour nous envoyer nous aussi hors de notre monde.

Nov 11, 2023 | nytimes.com | Kim Tingley

As an incubator of life, Earth has a lot going for it, something we often fail to appreciate fully from within its nurturing bounds. Merely sending probes and rovers to the moon and Mars won’t do. For various reasons — adventure! apocalypse! commerce! — we insist upon taking our corporeal selves off-world too. Multiple private companies have announced plans to put hotels in space soon. NASA is aiming to 3-D-print lunar neighborhoods within a couple of decades.

Aug 24, 2023 | afr.com | Kim Tingley

CompaniesHealthcare & FitnessHealthThey’re in everything from non-stick cookware to yoga pants – and in the bodies of almost every human alive. They may be doing people great harm. Kim TingleyAug 25, 2023 – 7.03am or Subscribe to save articleThe Faroe Islands, an incongruous speckling of green in the North Atlantic, are about as far away as you can hope to get on Earth from a toxic-waste dump, time zones distant from the nearest population centres (Norway to the east, Iceland to the west).

Aug 17, 2023 | pfascentral.org | Kim Tingley

By Kim Tingley | The New York Times Magazine | August 18, 2023 Read the full article by Kim Tingley (The New York Times Magazine) "The Faroe Islands, an incongruous speckling of green in the North Atlantic, are about as far away as you can hope to get on Earth from a toxic-waste dump, time zones distant from the nearest population centers (Norway to the east, Iceland to the west).