When it comes to natural disasters, prediction saves lives. Scientists can tell you the exact date and location that a meteor will hit years from now. They can alert people hours before some volcanic eruptions. And as happend this week end, following an eruption in tonga, deliver warnings ahead of sunami strikes.
Democrats will spend the week battling for a tightening of laws on casting votes; that will
overshadow Republicans’ worrying push into how those votes are counted and certified. Earthquakes remain damnably unpredictable, but
new research suggests a route to early-warning systems. And why hammams, the declining bathhouses of the Arab world, will
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