After conducting interviews in Montevideo, I took a short ferry ride to Buenos Aires. Just like Uruguay, Darwin uncovered large megafauna fossils in Argentina. When he wasn’t meeting with caudillo Juan Manuel de Rosas and dealing with chaotic local politics, Darwin fraternized with members of the influential English mercantile class […]
When he was not engaged in fractious local politics, Darwin traveled throughout the countryside where he uncovered large Ice Age fossils — extinct megafauna. I caught up with paleontologists at the National Museum of Natural History, an institution which had recently launched an exhibit dealing with Darwin’s legacy in […]
If anything, Elon Musk’s recent trip to South America demonstrates the futility of attempting to solve the climate crisis by means of technological innovation. Heading to Brazil, the Tesla billionaire and SpaceX chief executive met with President Jair Bolsonaro, as well as prominent business leaders and high-ranking military officers. Reportedly, […]
When you’re not cognizant of your own unique and underlying psychological particularities, to say nothing of self-destructive pitfalls, things have a way of spiraling downwards, until life’s various impasses and quandaries become so fraught as to be undeniable. I see this all more clearly now in my slightly mature years, […]
How could it be, Schreiber wondered? It was difficult to absorb the magnitude of what he had just heard. Waiting for the Q train at the 34th Street station, he mused over some of the technical terms the psychologist had employed, such as “cognitive inflexibility.” In light of the diagnosis, […]
“For weeks,” Mr. Hernández intoned, “I have been apprising you of an impending grisly experiment, and now the time has finally arrived!” Filing into science hall, the students were greeted by the bracing smell of formaldehyde. Spread out on tables were a dozen pans covered in plastic. Walking over to […]
To be sure, Latin America has plenty of reason to criticize Washington given the region’s long experience with U.S. interventionism. However, the tendency to excuse Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, while blaming the U.S. for all nefarious misdeeds, has led many “south of the border” to commit a serious error in […]
In the midst of writing about the rising tide of anti-Semitism in my own native borough of Brooklyn, I was recently taken aback to read about an attack on a local rabbi in Buenos Aires. The incident spurred concern in Argentina, which is home to more than 180,000 Jews, that […]
