Hopeless dilettante. Features and essays all over, inc: NYT, WaPo, FT, WSJ, Atlantic, Nat Geo, Guardian, Noema, Aeon, and Time.
https://www.henry-wismayer.com/
Henry Wismayer
“Detractors might scoff at Musk’s ambition to die on Mars, but at least the dying part would be easy.”
— @henrywismayer.bsky.social
#mars #spaceexploration #spacex
You stupid, stupid cunts.
My latest, in which I enjoyed the small catharsis of thinking about what would happen to Elon Musk's body if he stepped out onto the Martian surface in his "NUKE MARS" t-shirt - for @noemamag.com.
The Mars Delusion www.noemamag.com/the-mars-del...
“Many of the great men of history, who are often said to have bent society to their will, risk expert Luke Kemp told me, are better thought of as ‘a rollcall of serial killers.’”
— @henrywismayer.bsky.social
Sunday bump for my Smithsonian cover story.
The Sahara Desert Hasn’t Always Been a Dry, Desolate Landscape. Some Scientists See Signs It May Be Greening Again - www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu... @smithsonianmag.bsky.social
It can often feel as though we live on a stiflingly demystified little planet.
But I'd be surprised if 1% of readers have heard of the subject of my latest article: the Ennedi Reserve, in northeast Chad, among the grandest anonymous places on Earth.
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
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The Sahara Desert Hasn’t Always Been a Dry, Desolate Landscape. Some Scientists See Signs It May Be Greening Again.
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
@thesundaylongread.bsky.social
The Mars Delusion www.noemamag.com/the-mars-del...
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Establishing a human colony on Mars is fraught with risk. Why are so many people obsessed with achieving it?
