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  • The Hottest Summers

    de William Liu ...
    Extreme heat is the deadliest weather in America, and most of the people it kills never make the news.In the first days of July 2021, a heat dome settled over the Pacific Northwest, a region where most homes had no air conditioning. Fred Fah, a 66-year-old disabled Air Force veteran, died in his trailer home in Milwaukie, Oregon. He was one of hundreds. The Hottest Summers follows how a few days ... Leer más

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  • The Data Center Next Door

    de William Liu ...
    Your electric bill is going up, and a building you have never seen may be part of the reason.On a Thursday in April 2026, about twenty people filed into Noblesville City Hall, north of Indianapolis, to talk to the commission that sets their electric rates. One told regulators she was tired of the increases and had no other company to buy from. Across the country, similar rooms are filling up. The ... Leer más

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  • Solved by a Family Tree

    de William Liu ...
    In 2018, investigators used a genealogy website to name the Golden State Killer after four decades of silence. Since then, genetic genealogy has turned hundreds of unsolved murders and unidentified remains into named victims and named suspects. Solved by a Family Tree explains how a crime scene sample becomes a family tree, and how a tree becomes an arrest. You will meet the genetic detectives and ... Leer más

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  • The Pension Math

    de William Liu ...
    Across America, millions of teachers, firefighters, police officers and city workers were promised a retirement check. The money behind those promises is running short. The Pension Math explains why, in plain language, and what happens next. Fewer workers are paying in while more retirees are drawing out. Plans in Illinois, New Jersey and Kentucky have missed payments for years, and cities like ... Leer más

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  • Who Will Wire the House

    de William Liu ...
    Every year, tens of thousands of electricians, plumbers, welders, linemen and diesel mechanics reach retirement age, and there are not enough young workers coming up behind them. Who Will Wire the House follows that quiet shortage from the shop classes schools closed to the data centers now pulling in crews, and shows what breaks when the people who build and repair America's homes, grids and ... Leer más

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  • The Robot Next Door

    de William Liu ...
    Everyone has seen the video: a humanoid robot at a kitchen counter, folding a shirt, the music optimistic and the clip cut before anything goes wrong. Half the comments say the machines are coming for every job with a pair of hands. The other half say it is all theater. Both are partly right. The Robot Next Door sorts the evidence from the demo reel. It follows the humanoid robot from decades of ... Leer más

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  • The Tariff Comes Home

    de William Liu ...
    You have seen the headlines. But who actually pays when Washington taxes imported goods? The Tariff Comes Home follows the trade war from the loading dock to the checkout line, showing how tariffs reshaped the price of washing machines, steel, coffee, beef and bananas, and how they landed on farms, factories, small importers and ordinary family budgets. William Liu traces the history from the ... Leer más

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  • Built to Convict

    de William Liu ...
    Every year, innocent people are convicted of crimes they did not commit, and most of them never make the headlines. Built to Convict asks how it happens and why so many stay locked up. William Liu walks through the fifteen failure points that send the wrong person to prison: the face in the lineup, confessions nobody should believe, hair, teeth and forensic certainty, jailhouse informants, ... Leer más

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  • Empty Ranks

    de William Liu ...
    America's all-volunteer military is short of people, and the reasons run deeper than any single recruiting campaign. Empty Ranks examines why the services keep missing their enlistment goals: too few young Americans who can pass the physical, academic and moral screens, a smaller pool of teenagers after the peak year of births, fewer families with a tradition of service, and a wary public that is ... Leer más

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  • The River Runs Dry

    de William Liu ...
    In August 2026 Lake Mead fell to the lowest level ever recorded. Weeks later, Lake Powell followed. The seven states that share the Colorado River could not agree on how to divide a shrinking river, so the Secretary of the Interior imposed cuts himself, and one state sued within days. The River Runs Dry explains how the American West got here and what comes next. It reads the crisis as a debt, not ... Leer más

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  • The Driverless City

    de William Liu ...
    The steering wheel turns by itself, and within a few blocks most riders stop watching it. That is the story of the American robotaxi in the middle of the 2020s: the strangeness wears off faster than anyone expected. One company now reports roughly half a million paid driverless rides a week across more than a dozen metro areas. Heavy trucks with no one at the wheel are hauling freight on Texas ... Leer más

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  • The Biology Engine

    de William Liu ...
    In November 2020, an AI system called AlphaFold cracked a problem that had stumped biologists for fifty years: predicting the three-dimensional shape of a protein from its genetic sequence alone. That single breakthrough opened the door to the fastest decade of progress the life sciences have ever seen. The Biology Engine is a clear-eyed account of what artificial intelligence has actually ... Leer más

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