Vattenbristens Kalifornien och att bli inlåst tillsammans med Charles Darwin: länkar

“Mother Nature didn’t intend for 40 million people to live here,” said Kevin Starr, a historian at the University of Southern California who has written extensively about this state. “This is literally a culture that since the 1880s has progressively invented, invented and reinvented itself. At what point does this invention begin to hit limits?”

California, Dr. Starr said, “is not going to go under, but we are going to have to go in a different way.”

Reportage i NY Times om torkan i Kalifornien.

Om du fick välja, vem skulle du helst sitta inlåst tillsammans med under ett helt år? Charles Darwin? Ada Lovelace? Sacrobosco? Rösta i Darin Haytons vetenskapshistoriska utslagsturnering.