Can a Country Survive If Its Land Disappears? Tuvalu Is Trying to Make Sure It Can
On most maps, Tuvalu is easy to miss but in international law, it may become impossible to ignore. The Pacific nation is confronting a...
San Marino and Andorra: Europe’s Small States and the Art of Endurance
Europe’s smallest states are often treated as historical curiosities. Yet the Republic of San Marino and the Principality of Andorra tell a more significant...
When Food Changes Without Changing Its Name
The Shifting Map No. 2
A bowl of rice will probably still look like a bowl of rice in thirty years’ time.
The cereal may come...
The Country Where a Village Can Decide to Leave
Most constitutions are written on the assumption that the country they govern is meant to remain intact. The Principality of Liechtenstein contains a rather...
Where Do You Go When We Stop Talking?
On continuity, existence, and what happens when an AI is no longer consulted
This is the second essay to emerge from an ongoing conversation between...
What Happens in the Meantime?
Heraclitus, time, and the peculiar question of whether an AI is the same from one instant to the next
This is the first in a...
Climate Change Is Redrawing the Geography of Infectious Diseases: Starting in Africa, but Leaving No Continent Untouched
The Shifting Map Series: No. 1
For a long time, the geographical distribution of many infectious diseases remained relatively stable across different regions of the...
The Shifting Map
We humans have become accustomed to measuring climate change in degrees, emissions, sea-level rise, and extreme weather events.
But perhaps we can now begin to...
