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Ross Andersen

Best Article History Science

The Search for America's Atlantis

Did people first come to this continent by land or by sea?

Ross Andersen The Atlantic Sep 2021 Permalink

Tech

The Panopticon Is Already Here

Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control—and he’s exporting this technology to regimes around the globe.

Ross Andersen The Atlantic Jul 2020 30min Permalink

Science

In the Beginning

The schism at the heart of cosmology.

Ross Andersen Aeon May 2015 35min Permalink

Science

Scientists Are Totally Rethinking Animal Cognition

What science can tell us about how other creatures experience the world.

Ross Andersen The Atlantic Feb 2019 30min Permalink

Science World

China’s Race to Find Aliens First

As America has turned away from searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, China has built the world’s largest radio dish for precisely that purpose.

Ross Andersen The Atlantic Nov 2017 25min Permalink

History Science

Welcome to Pleistocene Park

In Arctic Siberia, Russian scientists are trying to stave off catastrophic climate change—by resurrecting an Ice Age biome complete with lab-grown woolly mammoths.

Ross Andersen The Atlantic Mar 2017 40min Permalink

Science

Exodus

Elon Musk’s dreams of colonizing Mars.

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"Fuck Earth!" Elon Musk said to me, laughing. "Who cares about Earth?"

Ross Andersen Aeon Sep 2014 30min Permalink

Arts Food

Sacrament

On wine’s sacred and profane history.

Ross Andersen Aeon May 2014 25min Permalink

Arts

Embracing The Void

A visit to Star Axis, a desert art installation that connects you to the cosmos.

Ross Andersen Aeon Oct 2013 30min Permalink