By its very definition, the news is unfamiliar and alarming. So many headlines feel like dispatches from a future we are not prepared for, and which has no room for us. Perhaps that begins to explain why the announcement that Metro has begun accepting pizza boxes in the recycling bin struck a chord ( Dr. Know, WW , Nov. 11 ). There is some comfort in remembering that the recycling policy baffles and annoys you, just as it baffled and annoyed your parents, and just as it will baffle and annoy your children. Perhaps 300 years from now, the robots that live in your descendants’ eyeglasses will be composing emoji messages about how none of the other eyeglass robots understands that the Soylent Green cups go in the blue bins. Perhaps your confusion will live on. Meanwhile, here’s what o

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