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Taking soil to space could help make other planets habitable
Spacecraft and planetary colonies need to be designed to become living ecosystems if we are to live in outer space. By Richard Gray.
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The Retreat from Hyper-Globalization – What’s The Future?
Flows of Goods and Services, People and Capital Have Overwhelmed the Ability of Political Processes to Accommodate Them. By William H. Janeway.
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Psychedelics and Systems Change
The legalization of cannabis, LSD, MDMA, psilocybin mushrooms, ayahuasca, and the other psychedelics would indeed mean the end of society as we know it. By Charles Eisenstein.
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Against the Grain: Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy
Adam Smith is regarded as the father of the free market, based on the notion that if we follow our self-interest without the intervention of governments, it will lead to the best possible outcome. But his moral philosophy has been forgotten or discarded by his supposed disciples…
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The Tragedy of the Commons: How Elinor Ostrom Solved One of Life’s Greatest Dilemmas
The design principles for solving the tragedy of the commons can be applied to all groups. By David S. Wilson.
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The Strange Inevitability of Evolution
Good solutions to biology’s problems are astonishingly plentiful. By Phillip Ball.
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How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul
In the 1970s, a new wave of post-Watergate liberals stopped fighting monopoly power. The result is an increasingly dangerous political system. By Matt Stoller.
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The Trap (2007)
Adam Curtis
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Why Capitalism Creates Pointless Jobs
It’s as if someone were out there making up pointless jobs just for the sake of keeping us all working. By David Graeber.
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The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority
How Europe will eat Halal — Why you don’t have to smoke in the smoking section — Your food choices on the fall of the Saudi king –How to prevent a friend from working too hard –Omar Sharif ‘s conversion — How to make a market collapse. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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The Man Who Invented Intelligent Traffic Control a Century Too Early
With traffic accidents soaring, Charles Adler imagined an intelligent transportation system that was ahead of its time. By Lee Vinsel.
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The false realism of lesser-evil voting
Tech writer Clay Shirky has posted an essay declaring that There's No Such Thing As A Protest Vote. In a better world we would be able to safely set this aside in the category of Crank Medium Posts By Dilettante Pundits At Odds With The Consensus Of Political Science And Historical Fact, but since he's voicing a perspective that's regrettably common... By Carl Beijer.
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Cloud and Field: On the resurgence of “field guides” in a networked age
We’ve moved from birding to dronewatching, from natural history to dark ecology. But are we still looking through colonialist binoculars? By Shannon Mattern.
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A Unified Theory of Randomness
Researchers have uncovered deep connections among different types of random objects, illuminating hidden geometric structures. By Kevin Hartnett.
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Everything Is Broken
“So the question I put to hackers, cryptographers, security experts, programmers, and so on was this: What’s the best option for people who can’t download new software to their machines? The answer was unanimous: nothing.” By Quinn Norton. (May 20, 2014)
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Ur-Fascism
I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it. By Umberto Eco. (June 22, 1995)
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The diversity of life across much of Earth has plunged below ‘safe’ levels
Scientists say that across the globe, more than 10 percent of species abundance has been lost. By Chris Mooney.
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Do I Have Power
Carlos De Carvalho, set to Timber Timbre’s “Do I Have Power” (Creep on creepin’ on)
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The Real Secret of Youth Is Complexity
Our physiological processes become increasingly simple as we age. By Lewis A. Lipsitz. (May 26,’16)
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Why science needs to break the spell of reductive materialism
“At the centre of my argument is a vexing question: since the Big Bang, why has the Universe become complex? I claim that at least part of the answer is that, as more complex things and linked processes are created, and can combine with one another to make yet more complex amalgams of things and processes, the space of possible things and linked processes becomes vastly larger, and the Universe has not had time to make all the possibilities.” By Stuart Kauffman.
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