Eric Krebs
Contributing Reporter
Author Archive
Borges, In Orbit

When an astronaut first enters orbit, they often turn around and look back at the planet from whence they came, and something changes. As declassified […]

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KREBS: Tragedy of Commons

The Brazillian highway, BR-163, stretches nearly three-thousand miles through Amazonia, from the southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul to the ports of Pará in […]

The Phantom in Your Pants

Picture this. It’s summer — bzz — and you’re relaxing. Maybe you’re on your lunch break sweating through your business casual. Maybe it’s the weekend, […]

KREBS: Yale’s arc

I didn’t grow up in poverty. Not even close, really. I grew up well connected, too — if I wanted in on the International Brotherhood […]

Wax That Spins, Sounds that Byte

Music is old, old as the Paleolithic pounding of the first stone tools. The song is old, too — a few millennia, or 40. The […]

KREBS: Red, Hot Air

The executive’s order? One culture war, medium rare. The Trump administration’s latest political stunt — an executive order mandating that universities promote “free and open […]

KREBS: With your eyes closed

October 28th, 1956. Elvis Presley, who, just a month earlier, had set the world record for most viewed telecast in TV history, takes the stage […]

KREBS: Caught in the net

You stare at the blank, white page. The cursor blinks. A minute goes by and your screen darkens. The void stares back. Suddenly, your screen […]

KREBS: On (un)dead abusers

What to do with a dead abuser? My high school, an all-boys Jesuit school, seems to be trying to figure that one out. The Jesuit […]

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KREBS: From Aleph to us

As a kid, I wanted to be a lot of things. I bet you did, too. From music videos to videos games to game theory […]

KREBS: Life in sepia

Do you ever look back and question your middle-school self’s liberal use of Instagram filters? I can’t be the only one who lived 2010–13 in […]