In practice, it might not have mattered whether ordeals were truly God’s judgments or instead the judgments of clever legal systems that leveraged criminal defendants’ incentives to correctly find fact. For, in either case, the result was the same: improved criminal justice, thanks to God.

I want to believe.

We have time to save the Great Barrier Reef from global warming.

It's not too late to rescue one of the world's most spectacular natural wonders. But we don't have long.

A steht für Antisemitismus.

Sie wollten uns umbringen, wir haben überlebt, lasst uns essen!

This Is What A 21st-Century Police State Really Looks Like.

Far from the booming metropolis of Beijing, China is building a sprawling system that combines dystopian technology and human policing. “It’s a kind of frontline laboratory for surveillance.”

Memorial to a species

Wildlife Photographer of the Year: The brutal reality of rhino poaching.

Having children is not life-affirming: it’s immoral.

If any other species caused as much damage as humans do, we would think it wrong to breed new members of that species

“Survivorship Bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on the people or things that made it past some selection process and overlooking those that did not, typically because of their lack of visibility.”