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The Big Fight Over 403 Very Small Wasps

Earth is teeming with unknown species, and they're dying off faster than ever. Now biologists are in an urgent battle over an old question: how should humanity catalog life?

Meeting of Music Minds

MUSIC IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Dear Cloud Support: "I'm a white person, and despite there being a range of skin tones available for emoji these days, I still just choose the original Simpsons-esque yellow. Is this insensitive to people of color?" -True Colors

I realize, True Colors, that this discussion has probably only complicated the dilemma you posed, rather than simplified it.

SEE NO EVIL

Companies pay millions to get their digital ads in front of humans. Shady networks show them to bots instead. And everyone is fine with this.

HIGH IMPACT

Photographer Neil Buckland captures the mosaic of minerals in meteorites.

The Digital Payments Mastermind

DIARY OF AN ENTREPRENEUR

ONCE MOORE

Rereading the most influential article of the 20th century.

Tara McGowan – Ms. Info

A former Democratic millions into Meta's ad operative is sinking networks to build a digital media machine for the left. Her strategy: Target potential voters with grabby local news stories, then get them to the polls.

Stay

The search for a pill that can help dogs, and eventually humans, live longer.

Fully Charged

EV companies are figuring out ways to turn a car's frame into a giant battery, making their vehicles cheaper, roomier, and able to go twice as far.

Nils Frahm – Stranger Thing

On his new album, German audio artist Nils Frahm adds a spooky instrument invented by Benjamin Franklin to his eclectic aural menagerie.

A Column on the Principle of Population

Elon Musk wants you to have more babies. Should you?