Sarah Laskow
@slaskow
Science editor @theatlantic. Enthusiastic about plants, cities, and other strange things. slaskow at theatlantic dot com
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for The Atlantic, i make the argument that we should be funding our urban public pools -- which have declined over the last half-century -- as climate infrastructure. (this includes what i am pretty sure is the highland park pool's atlantic debut.) theatlantic.com/health/archive…
Today in Heatmap News I explain why renewables developers and climate advocates should take public fears about wildlife and environment impacts seriously — using our own polling 🌞 heatmap.news/climate/renewa…
Most of the common ways of dying in the U.S. involve illness. But cars are “a danger we’ve opted into,” Sarah Laskow writes in Time-Travel Thursdays. “They kill so many people because so many people want to use them.” theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
For The Atlantic I wrote about state-run home insurers as comforting fictions and our collective state of living in housing fantasy-land. In other words I wrote about unpriced climate risk in the housing market. There's... a lot of it. Gift link: theatlantic.com/science/archiv…
Most of the common ways of dying in the U.S. involve illness. But cars are “a danger we’ve opted into,” Sarah Laskow writes in Time-Travel Thursdays. “They kill so many people because so many people want to use them.” theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
Wastewater monitoring was so useful for COVID-19, some places are now using it to track drug use. But many researchers and public-health officials worry that such monitoring could be used against the people it’s intended to help. Helen Ouyang reports: theatlantic.com/health/archive…
The effort to save Hakai Magazine.com is fully underway. So far, we've lined up commitments worth about half of what we need to keep publishing. Ideally, we want one or two more large foundations or donations to give us a solid floor before we throw the doors to reader donations.
I am thrilled to share that I will be a staff writer at The Atlantic starting in mid- September, covering my favorite topic: “the mind, in all its complexity” 🧠