Articles by Christopher Mims
Christopher Mims's dystopian non-fiction is sought after by an ever-growing roster of publications.
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Tragic death leads to energy conservation
Stray voltage can kill -- and it's costing the utility companies plenty.
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Cap-and-trade scheme for whaling to be almost as popular as the other kind
Scientists proposed in the journal Nature that one way to save whales is to allow people to hunt them.
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Don’t believe the hype about the ‘molecule that could solve climate change’
Some chemists came up with a really clever way to observe the intermediate stage of an atmospheric chemical reaction, and then some PR flack got a hold of it and suddenly science has invented a brand-new molecule that will solve all our climate change woes! As usual, things that seem too good to be true probably are.
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Africa’s first green, locavore, gluten-free beer
In Mozambique, home brewing is big -- not because the country is full of mustachioed, fixie-riding expats from Portlandia, but just because it's less expensive. So when brewing giant SABMiller wanted to figure out how to sell beer to people who are already making their own, they had to do it on the cheap.
