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Tesla’s Powerwall battery pack could help homes go off-grid. Just don’t toast bread and make coffee at the same time.

Allan Markin is one of Alberta’s richest men—and a crusader to get Canadians to take more vitamin D. Misguided eccentric, or visionary?

’Bee hotels’ have been popping up as a possible aid for bee populations. But there are problems for those checking in.

From 2015: A celebrated painter on going back to the islands that helped launch a very personal mission

From 2015: Sexist buffoonery cost Shawn Simoes his job. But you could lose yours for a lot less. Welcome to the creeping corporate takeover of our private lives.

From 2015: Philip Slayton on bad mayors, good mayors—and why every big-city mayor has no real power and is doomed to fail

From 2015: Rather than emerging as a fully formed butterfly, he’s showing the world what happens inside the cocoon.

The cheeky rebranding of multiple sclerosis in Canada raises the fair question: why are rates so high here?

From 2015: Six friends paddle from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Ocean—just for the adventure of it all

Historian Jonathan Zimmerman on why teachers hate sex ed and democracy is terrible for it, and how a history of the subject is like Seinfeld