USA · Ideenmagazin (Berggruen Institute)
Recently, Elon Musk stirred controversy across a sweltering Europe simply by tweeting on X that Lee Kuan Yew, the founding father of Singapore, was a “genius” because he had the vision to see that introducing air conditioning would entirely change what was possible in the …
Looking in the mirror each morning at my permanently fatigued face, I start my day with a gulp of apple cider vinegar and a vitamin pill. I move on through a box of sardines and a grapefruit, some dense rye bread, some brown yogurt ( ryazhenka ) and cashew nuts.
On a Saturday night, five days before Christmas, a fire at a San Francisco power substation cut electricity to roughly 130,000 homes and businesses. Traffic signals went dark across a third of the city.