Death Valley Driver

from SFGate Death Valley National Park is so hot that cars keep catching on fire Cars, not heat, are the biggest problem in the deadly park By Farley Elliott, SoCal Bureau Chief Panamint Valley looking west along Highway 190, Death Valley, Calif.David Toussaint/Getty...

Terrible.

from Texas Monthly The Beauty and the Danger of the Guadalupe River Generations of Texans gather at the river’s stunning headwaters, which have been carved by cycles of catastrophic floods. By Bekah Stolhandske McNeel The Guadalupe River at Gruene. David Wolters/Getty...

Terminal Lucidity

from EL PAÍS Flashes of lucidity before death: The debate shaking up neuroscience Near-death experiences and terminal lucidity raise questions about what we know about consciousness by DANIEL MEDIAVILLA CINTA ARRIBAS “My mother had advanced Alzheimer’s. She no longer...

Cancelling Winston

from The Daily Mail George Orwell estate accused of censorship after putting trigger warning at start of Nineteen Eighty-Four By JADA BAS George Orwell’s estate has been accused of censorship after a ‘trigger warning’ was added to his classic...

Astrocytes

from The Washington Post via MSN Little-known cells might be key to human brain’s massive memory by Erin Blakemore Little-known cells might be key to human brain’s massive memory © Arthur Chien/Science Source A new model of memory — and a little-heralded type of brain...

ispace moonbase

from ABC News A private company wants to build a city on the moon. But it has to land a probe first ispace will make its second attempt at an uncrewed moon landing Thursday. By Matthew Glasser A private space exploration company based in Japan, ispace, wants to see...