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My wife and I count two different gay couples — one lesbian, one male — among our closest friends. We see these friends often, and they are…

Clothing fibers are diverse in origin. Silk is larva excretion. Nylon is reconfigured petroleum. So don’t be surprised to learn that…

On March 10 President Obama and Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, stood outside the White House and announced a series of…

David Adamson and I are cruising down the road in a giant egg-shaped electric tricycle built for two. I’m driving-pedaling, and David sits…

Grim is the normal mood in most coverage of energy and the environment, and there are plenty of reasons for concern. But let us now load…

I never met Aubrey McClendon, but I once saw his famous motorcycle. It was a blue and chrome chopper whose awkward fuel tank might have…

Stephen Lebel of Fort Collins, Colorado, picked me up recently in an Uber. A few weeks earlier he’d lost a lucrative job drilling oil…

A remarkable transformation of matter is happening in a windowless laboratory at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Small black pellets…