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Our Beleaguered Planet
The interaction of global climate change, poverty, affluence, and overpopulation. By Marcia Angell.
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NSFW Knightriders
(1981)
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No Mushroom Cloud
A fungus offers a complicated lesson in late-capitalist logistics and survival. By Miranda Trimmier.
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The Problem With Evidence-Based Policies
Many organizations, from government agencies to philanthropic institutions and aid organizations, now demand that programs and policies be “evidence-based.” But the way this idea is being implemented may be doing a lot of harm, impairing our ability to learn and improve on what we do. By Ricardo Hausmann.
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How Alaskan hunter-gatherers preserved their food sources
A new study of humans on Sanak Island, Alaska and their historical relationships with local species suggests that despite being super-generalist predators, the food gathering behaviours of the local Aleut people were stabilizing for the ecosystem.
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Researchers find the tipping point between resilience and collapse in complex systems
Honeybees have been dying in record numbers, threatening the continued production of nutritious foods such as apples, nuts, blueberries, broccoli, and onions. Without bees to pollinate these crops, the environmental ecosystem—and our health—stands in the balance. Have we reached the tipping point, where the plant-pollinator system is due to collapse?
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The Hadza, the Honeyguide Bird and the Persistent Problem of 'Naturefaking'
In the tree-strewn savannah of northern Tanzania, near the salty shores of Lake Eyasi, live some of the planet’s few remaining hunter-gatherers. Known as the Hadza, they live in Hadzaland, which stretches for about 4,000 square kilometers around the lake. No one is sure how long they’ve been there, but it could be since humans became human... By Cara Giaimo.
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The Devil at 37,000 Feet
There were so many opportunities for the accident not to happen—the collision between a Legacy 600 private jet and a Boeing 737 carrying 154 people. But on September 29, 2006, high above the Amazon, a long, thin thread of acts and omissions brought the two airplanes together... By William Langewiesche. (Jan. ’09)
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How to declutter your life by not giving a fuck
We talk to Sarah Knight about her new book ‘The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a Fuck: How to stop spending time you don’t have doing things you don’t want to do with people you don’t like.’
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Nature’s Critical Warning System
Scientists are homing in on a warning signal that arises in complex systems like ecological food webs, the brain and the Earth’s climate. Could it help prevent future catastrophes? By Natalie Wolchover.
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Language, Policed: The Monster of Bad Spelling
And the newspaper that led a movement for a more accessible language. By Annie Abrams.
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WarGames for real: How one 1983 exercise nearly triggered WWIII
Newly released documents reveal the KGB software model that forecasted mushroom clouds. By Sean Gallagher.
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The secret Soviet observatory still spying on space
Abastumani, hidden in the wild Georgian mountains, was a once-secret Soviet observatory. Tara Isabella Burton visits to see how it has adapted to post-Cold War life.
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Beauty and the east: allure and exploitation in post-Soviet ruin photography
As new book Soviet Ghosts shows, everyone loves an artfully shot post-communist ruin. But, asks Jamie Rann, what does this say about us — and about Russia?
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Devoted to Terror: How the Camps Were Run
Thomas Laqueur reviews “KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps” by Nikolaus Wachsmann.
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Crops farmed by leafcutter ants show signs of domestication
Fungus-farming ants seem to have selected for genome duplications in their crop, just like human farmers, allowing them to expand the size of their colonies. By Claire Asher.
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What explains the glory that was Greece? Actually, sound economic policy
Where and how did the ancient Greeks gain the wealth with which to build a culture that became central to the modern world? By Josiah Ober.
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Escaping the tragedy of the commons through targeted punishment
Failures of cooperation cause many of society's gravest problems. It is well known that cooperation among many players faced with a social dilemma can be maintained thanks to the possibility of punishment, but achieving the initial state of widespread cooperation is often much more difficult. We show here that there exist strategies of ‘targeted punishment’ whereby a small number of punishers can shift a population of defectors into a state of global cooperation. By Samuel Johnson.
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Ten scary hacks I saw at Black Hat and DEF CON
While cyber security is increasingly important, researchers show how little of it we actually have. By Lucian Constantin.
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The Archdruid Report: The Cimmerian Hypothesis, Part Three
The End of the Dream.
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