Lizzie Wade

1 day ago | slate.com | Lizzie Wade

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. I’ve spent most of my life terrified of climate change and the apocalyptic future it seems destined to create. I was 2 years old when climate scientist James Hansen historically testified before Congress about the “greenhouse effect,” and things haven’t exactly gotten better from there.

1 week ago | science.org | Lizzie Wade

As John Rick excavated one of the many underground chambers at the ancient Peruvian site of Chavín de Huántar in 2017 his trowel hit something intriguing, and exceedingly delicate. It was a cigarette-size tube made of animal bone and packed full of sediment. The following year, his team found almost two dozen more. Rick, an archaeologist at Stanford University, suspected these bone tubes were pieces of ancient drug paraphernalia.

1 week ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Lizzie Wade

Like it or not, disaster is coming. There will be a hurricane, earthquake, fire, flood, pandemic, storm, or maybe even war, perhaps sooner rather than later. How should you prepare? Some Americans, across the political spectrum, are buying guns and practicing military tactics that they expect to need if society collapses. But civilization doesn’t have to end for help to arrive dangerously slowly.

1 week ago | nypost.com | Lizzie Wade

Like it or not, disaster is coming. There will be a hurricane, earthquake, fire, flood, pandemic, storm, or maybe even war, perhaps sooner rather than later. How should you prepare? Some Americans, across the political spectrum, are buying guns and practicing military tactics that they expect to need if society collapses. But civilization doesn’t have to end for help to arrive dangerously slowly.

2 weeks ago | science.org | Lizzie Wade

Ten years ago, archaeologist Jennifer Birch thought she had a good handle on when and why Ontario’s largest excavated Iroquois village, known as the Jean-Baptiste Lainé Site, was abandoned. Because archaeologists had found few European artifacts there, they figured people deserted the village around 1535, shortly after the first French explorers entered Canada’s interior. But Sturt Manning, a radiocarbon dating expert at Cornell University, saw a way to test that picture.