In the most remote settlement in Greenland, Hjelmer Hammeken's life style has gone from something that worked for thousands of years to something that may not outlive him.
Ben Taub is a Staff Writer at The New Yorker. He covers a range of topics including elections, government, politics, public policy, security policy, and tech policy, often intersecting with themes related to authors, books, and publishing houses. His work has also been featured in Frontiers, Oxford University Press, IFLScience, Nature Portfolio, and Magzter.







