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How Science Played With Magic And Got Burnt - 2023/05/30

Any sufficiently advanced tech is indistinguishable from magic
How Electric Vehicles Won’t Save Us - 2023/05/25

Minerals are also non-renewable resources
The Lie At The Heart Of Consumer Society - 2023/05/19

We know that consumer goods degrade, but the place they come from supposedly doesn’t
How, Economically, We’re Fucked - 2023/05/18

Economists believe the equivalent of the sun going around the Earth, with far worse consequences
How Science Is Dead [free post] - 2023/05/10

Basic science ground to a halt last century
How Space Is Not Going To Save Us [free post] - 2023/05/08

Space can’t save us from ourselves
How I Believe In Rebirth [free post] - 2023/05/02

If you believe in the Buddhist concept of not-self, rebirth follows
How, Mathematically, We’re Fucked [free post] - 2023/04/26

Exponential growth on a finite planet does not end well, whatever form it takes
Why Solar Won’t Save Us [free post] - 2023/04/13

Growth is the problem, not how we grow
Fossil Fuels Were A One-Time Inheritance And We Blew It [free post] - 2023/04/05

What a textbook shows about peak everything
How Science Caused Climate Collapse - 2023/01/30

We can't just 'follow the science'.
𑁨 | The First Fuck - 2022/11/30

was given
1.3) My Life As A Rock Monster - 2022/11/23

Ashes from ashes, dust from dust
1) Big Bang Baby: My First And Only Birth - 2022/11/14

How I was born in the Big Bang
How The Fossil Record Shows The Rise Of Machines - 2022/08/26

Grave goods mark the evolution of commodities, not human beings
Between Waking And Dreaming - 2022/08/24

On the unreality of reality and the power of dreams
The Natural History Museum Is A Tomb - 2022/08/22

They took all the species and put them in a species museum
Why Humans Won’t Go Extinct From Climate Collapse - 2022/05/13

But boy will it suck
How Cars Are The Apex Predators - 2022/02/05

If aliens were looking down from space, why would they think the roadkill are in charge?
How Cognitive Science Helps Me Write - 2022/01/27

The science (and art) of connecting brains
How To Keep COVID Away From Your Fucking Face (an Infographic) - 2022/01/24

Masks should be our last line of defense, not our first
How Omicron Makes A Mockery Of Herd Immunity - 2021/12/23

We’ve gone from COVID-19 to COVID-∞
We Need To Talk About Long COVID - 2021/12/12

It’s serious, and we need to take patients seriously
How Humans Must Adapt To Climate Collapse Or Die (And How We'll Probably Die Anyways) - 2021/12/10

A long historical view on climate, capitalism, and life
What We SHOULD Learn From The Pandemic - 2021/12/04

I mean, we won't, but we should
How Commodities Are Artificial Life - 2021/11/10

Marx's commodity fetish wasn't necrophilia
A Brief History Of Human Communication - 2021/09/09

From orality to literacy and back again
The Monkey Roots Of Inequality - 2021/05/14

We keep appealing to reason but we're just apes
How Science Is Not Good [free post] - 2021/03/12

Why we can’t just follow the science
How Water Keeps Us Alive - 2021/03/07

Biologically speaking, we’re just walking water balloons
mRNA Vaccines Belong To The World - 2021/03/06

No one is safe until mRNA factories are everywhere
How Geology Buries Black Voters - 2020/11/04

Voter suppression is built into the bedrock of the USA
The Terrible Beauty of COVID-19 (in GIFs) - 2020/08/25

How the coronavirus looks, and what it does inside your body
Corporations Are Already AI [free post] - 2020/08/20

The stock market is sentient and it hates you
The Problem With Public Masking - 2020/07/14

Most infection happens in private
How Viruses Are Misunderstood - 2020/06/20

Viruses are great
How Porn Can Help Fight Coronavirus - 2020/05/27

The porn industry has a robust testing and tracing system. It can be studied and scaled.
How To Test Everyone — Thru Poop - 2020/05/01

Three studies on detecting COVID-19 in wastewater
Everyone Has Two Immune Systems - 2020/04/30

One in your body and one outside
Why People Believe In Fake Cures - 2020/04/07

Because they work
Don’t Blame China For Coronavirus. Blame Everyone - 2020/03/27

China wasn’t much slower than anybody else
The Latest Coronavirus Drugs and Vaccines - 2020/03/20

In two infographics
Will Warm Weather Kill Coronavirus? - 2020/03/18

Probably not
COVID-19 May Infect Half The World - 2020/02/25

Don’t panic, but this is getting pandemic
Green Energy Is Now As Cheap As Fossil Fuels - 2020/02/06

Fossil Fuels are the energy of the past
India Wants To Fight Coronavirus With Arsenic - 2020/01/31

When misinformation comes from the top
What Scientists Say About The Coronavirus - 2020/01/30

A review of two recent studies
A Metro Map Of Our Solar System - 2020/01/29

The almost free gravity train around the solar system
Forget Mars. We Should Colonize Venus First - 2020/01/20

Venus is our galactic AirBnB
Bacteria Is An Immortal, Living God - 2020/01/10

The life that gave us life