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How Science Played With Magic And Got Burnt
Any sufficiently advanced tech is indistinguishable from magic
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How Electric Vehicles Won’t Save Us
Minerals are also non-renewable resources
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The Lie At The Heart Of Consumer Society
We know that consumer goods degrade, but the place they come from supposedly doesn’t
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How, Economically, We’re Fucked
Economists believe the equivalent of the sun going around the Earth, with far worse consequences
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How Science Is Dead
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Basic science ground to a halt last century
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How Space Is Not Going To Save Us
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Space can’t save us from ourselves
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How I Believe In Rebirth
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If you believe in the Buddhist concept of not-self, rebirth follows
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How, Mathematically, We’re Fucked
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Exponential growth on a finite planet does not end well, whatever form it takes
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Why Solar Won’t Save Us
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Growth is the problem, not how we grow
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Fossil Fuels Were A One-Time Inheritance And We Blew It
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What a textbook shows about peak everything
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How Science Caused Climate Collapse
We can't just 'follow the science'.
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𑁨 | The First Fuck
was given
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1.3) My Life As A Rock Monster
Ashes from ashes, dust from dust
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1) Big Bang Baby: My First And Only Birth
How I was born in the Big Bang
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How The Fossil Record Shows The Rise Of Machines
Grave goods mark the evolution of commodities, not human beings
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Between Waking And Dreaming
On the unreality of reality and the power of dreams
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The Natural History Museum Is A Tomb
They took all the species and put them in a species museum
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Why Humans Won’t Go Extinct From Climate Collapse
But boy will it suck
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How Cars Are The Apex Predators
If aliens were looking down from space, why would they think the roadkill are in charge?
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How Cognitive Science Helps Me Write
The science (and art) of connecting brains
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How To Keep COVID Away From Your Fucking Face (an Infographic)
Masks should be our last line of defense, not our first
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How Omicron Makes A Mockery Of Herd Immunity
We’ve gone from COVID-19 to COVID-∞
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We Need To Talk About Long COVID
It’s serious, and we need to take patients seriously
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How Humans Must Adapt To Climate Collapse Or Die (And How We'll Probably Die Anyways)
A long historical view on climate, capitalism, and life
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What We SHOULD Learn From The Pandemic
I mean, we won't, but we should
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How Commodities Are Artificial Life
Marx's commodity fetish wasn't necrophilia
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A Brief History Of Human Communication
From orality to literacy and back again
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The Monkey Roots Of Inequality
We keep appealing to reason but we're just apes
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How Science Is Not Good
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Why we can’t just follow the science
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How Water Keeps Us Alive
Biologically speaking, we’re just walking water balloons
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mRNA Vaccines Belong To The World
No one is safe until mRNA factories are everywhere
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How Geology Buries Black Voters
Voter suppression is built into the bedrock of the USA
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The Terrible Beauty of COVID-19 (in GIFs)
How the coronavirus looks, and what it does inside your body
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Corporations Are Already AI
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The stock market is sentient and it hates you
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The Problem With Public Masking
Most infection happens in private
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How Viruses Are Misunderstood
Viruses are great
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How Porn Can Help Fight Coronavirus
The porn industry has a robust testing and tracing system. It can be studied and scaled.
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How To Test Everyone — Thru Poop
Three studies on detecting COVID-19 in wastewater
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Everyone Has Two Immune Systems
One in your body and one outside
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Why People Believe In Fake Cures
Because they work
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Don’t Blame China For Coronavirus. Blame Everyone
China wasn’t much slower than anybody else
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The Latest Coronavirus Drugs and Vaccines
In two infographics
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Will Warm Weather Kill Coronavirus?
Probably not
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COVID-19 May Infect Half The World
Don’t panic, but this is getting pandemic
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Green Energy Is Now As Cheap As Fossil Fuels
Fossil Fuels are the energy of the past
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India Wants To Fight Coronavirus With Arsenic
When misinformation comes from the top
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What Scientists Say About The Coronavirus
A review of two recent studies
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A Metro Map Of Our Solar System
The almost free gravity train around the solar system
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Forget Mars. We Should Colonize Venus First
Venus is our galactic AirBnB
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Bacteria Is An Immortal, Living God
The life that gave us life