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Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski built and flew her own aircraft at 14, earned a perfect MIT GPA, and now researches quantum gravity after rejecting NASA offers.

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Advancements in renewable energy are paving the way for a new climate politics. The environmentalist Bill McKibben articulates some of the possibilities in this new era of energy abundance.