Dispatches: Getting Past Our Fear of Great White Sharks
Recent months have seen a media frenzy around the return of great white sharks to the waters surrounding Cape Cod. And with good reason: over the summer, great whites were routinely spotted off the ic...
25 Sep 201944min
Science of Survival: Defending Your Home from a Raging Wildfire
The 2018 Carr Fire was one of the worst wildfires in California history. By the time it was contained, it had burned 359 square miles, destroyed close to 2,000 buildings, and killed seven people. It a...
18 Sep 201931min
The Outside Interview: David Epstein on Why the Best Athletes Like to Dabble and Frequently Quit
In the world of athletics, the idea is that if you want to be the best, you have to specialize young and maintain near laserlike focus. The archetypal example is Tiger Woods, who, as the legend goes, ...
10 Sep 201941min
Dispatches: Doug Peacock on the Fight to Protect Grizzly Bears
Doug Peacock took an unlikely path to becoming an icon of conservation. Following two tours in the Vietnam War as a Green Beret medic, he sought solace and comfort in the American Wilderness, where he...
27 Aug 201939min
Dispatches: Will Drinking a Gallon of Water a Day Make You Healthier?
Water is critical to human life. Our bodies are more than 50 percent water. We can survive months barely eating, but even a few days without water and we’ll die. Water flushes toxins out of our organs...
13 Aug 201925min
Dispatches: This Is What a Runner Looks Like
When Mirna Valerio first began running ultramarathons, she immediately got a lot of attention, but not for the reasons you might expect. Because of her body size, she didn’t fit the accepted image of ...
7 Aug 201929min
Dispatches: Is Sunscreen the New Margarine?
Earlier this year, Outside contributing editor Rowan Jacobsen wrote a feature that questioned whether our efforts to avoid skin cancer have caused us to develop an unhealthy relationship with the sun ...
30 Jul 201930min
What Awe in Nature Does for Us
A large and growing body of research has found that time outdoors makes us happier and healthier, but there’s relatively limited science explaining why. According to findings published last summer in ...
23 Jul 201925min
