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Electricity

Shouts & Murmurs

Benjamin Franklin’s Google Search History from June, 1752

June 9th, 12:17 P.M. “Could lightning strike make man very handsome?”
Annals of Technology

America’s Favorite Pickup Truck Goes Electric

Ford’s F-series trucks make up the best-selling vehicle line in the U.S. Can its new F-150 Lightning compete with Tesla in the E.V. market?
Books

Understanding the Body Electric

Strong current can kill us, but electrical impulses let us live—a power even the ancients may have attempted to exploit.
Annals of a Warming Planet

Automakers Start to Figure Out the Climate Future

Bankers, not so much.
A Reporter at Large

The Race to Solar-Power Africa

American startups are competing to bring electricity to communities that remain off the grid.
News Desk

The Lights Are Going Out in the Middle East

Profiles

Inherit the Wind

The Mail

Adapting to Change

Richard Brody

Jerry Lewis, Writer

Comment

The Nuclear Risk

Letter from Colorado

The Uranium Widows

Shouts & Murmurs

Living Up To Your Prius

Culture Desk

Empowered

Page-Turner

Ask an Academic: Blackouts

Faith and Doubt

Mysteries of Flight

Books

Our Own Devices

Profiles

Mr. Green

Comment

Untransformed

Uptown

Home Alone

The Financial Page

Bring On the Nanobubble