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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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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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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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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 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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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 Trap (2007)
Adam Curtis
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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 Strange Inevitability of Evolution
Good solutions to biology’s problems are astonishingly plentiful. By Phillip Ball.
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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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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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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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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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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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Seeing Wetiko
On Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition. By Alnoor Ladha, Martin Kirk.
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Balance
Tobias Hutzler
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Order from Chaos
Max Cooper. Video by Maxime Causeret
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Donald Trump is not the problem – he’s the symptom
Trump is what happens when you fail to understand our global problems in their interconnected, systemic context. By Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed.
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Man Dying From Cancer Spends Last Good Day On Phone With Insurance Company
Displaying a level of strength and mobility that he will never again possess as he paced back and forth across his living room Tuesday, terminally ill man Thomas Halverson reportedly spent the last good day of his life on the phone with his insurance company. [Satire]
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Symmetry
Max Cooper, Tom Hodge, Kevin McGloughlin
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