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Writes about culture and climate. Asks "Why are men like this?" Host of @nontoxicpodcast. Find my byline in @nytimes @newyorker, @FT, and elsewhere.
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The Rising Tide - The Provincetown Independent

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By Daniel Penny
| The Provincetown Independent Verified
Fifty years from now, when the U.S. is celebrating its 300th anniversary in 2076, the waters around the Outer Cape will be anywhere from 2.5 to 4.5 feet above the year-2000 mark. Two and a half feet is if everything goes right: the world quickly transitions to renewables and manages to slow the melting of glaciers; four and a half if we stick to the “Drill, Baby, Drill” path of the Trump administration. What will the Outer Cape look like in such a world?
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Silicon Valley’s Answer to Declining Male Fertility? Sperm Racing.

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By Daniel Penny
| The New York Times Verified
The average human sperm cell is around 50 microns long, roughly the diameter of a hair or the thickness of a heavy-duty plastic bag. Under a microscope, amid a galaxy of proteins, sugars, dust and dead cells, they look like broken satellites, spinning crazily without direction. The motion is generated by the sperm cell’s long flagellum, which can propel it the length of its body every second.
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“No Man Left Behind”: American Technology Ships with Our Values

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By Daniel Penny, Alex Oliver, Zachary Chen
| a16z
“No Man Left Behind”: American Technology Ships with Our Values Table of Contents Share When DUDE44, an American F-15, was downed over Iranian territory, the United States expended considerable resources—logistics, risk, cost—to recover the stranded Americans. Not because the math favored it in any narrow operational sense, but because as Americans we believe in “no man left behind” as tenet.
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