Andrew Postman

Few questions confound health-conscious conservationists more than the first one a waiter might ask at a nice restaurant: bottled or tap? Kirstin Mckee/Stocksy We know which is better for the environment. That's easy. Not only are millions of tons of plastic bottles clogging our landfills, but it takes 1.63 liters of water to make every liter of Dasani—and the company is doing it in drought-plagued California.

Skip to All NYU Navigation Skip to Main Content By Andrew Postman Artwork by Philiplueck This pastMay, President Andrew Hamilton provided “An Update on the Sciences at NYU.” The report highlighted four fields of science with ambitious visions: supercomputing, chemical biology, bioengineering, and quantum phenomena (artificial intelligence was recently named a priority as well). The university’s unique potential for intersectionality in these areas makes them ideal for investment.

The thing that keeps me from thinking I’m such a negligent parent, circa iPhone X, is my confidence that my peers suck at the technology-monitoring part as much as I do.