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Clive Thompson

Clive Thompson

Clive Thompson is a journalist who writes about science and technology. He’s a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and a monthly columnist for Wired magazine; he also writes a periodic column about the history of technology for Smithsonian magazine.

A group of babies with various emotions

The Science of Baby-Name Trends

What makes a name suddenly pop—and then die? Social scientists and historians have been puzzling over this for decades.
John Tyndall's setup for measuring radiant heat absorption by gases

How 19th-Century Scientists Predicted Global Warming

Today’s headlines make climate change seem like a recent discovery. But Eunice Newton Foote and others have been piecing it together for centuries.