The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand
Atlantic Ocean is headed for a tipping point − once melting glaciers shut down the Gulf Stream, we would see…
5 min · · Scientists now have a better understanding of the risks ahead and a new early warning signal to watch for. · Shared by 257, including Tim
Undark Magazine
It Took 35 years to Get a Malaria Vaccine. Why?
8 min · · The parasite’s complex biology played a role in the delay, but experts say there was also a lack of urgency and funding. · Shared by 1369, including Tactical Tech, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Tim, Deborah Blum, Dr. Saskia Popescu
Noema Magazine
Who Gets A Nation?
13+ min · · Faced with novel collective and planetary threats like the climate crisis, the EU’s layered architecture provides a model of international cooperation while still respecting disparate peoples’… · Shared by 179, including Tim
Vox
The future of the planet hinges on understanding these 5 key phrases
14+ min · · The controversial concepts shaping climate action, defined. · Shared by 117, including Tim
The New York Times
Opinion | Bill Gates: How I Invest My Money in a Warming World
4 min · · Rich individuals, companies and countries must ensure green technologies are affordable for everyone, everywhere. · Shared by 83, including Tim
Vox
How millennials learned to dread motherhood
20+ min · · To our generation, being a mom looks thankless, exhausting, and lonely. Can we change the story? · Shared by 251, including Tim
Rest of World
Investors are unsettled as funding is drying up for Africa’s startup ecosystem
4 min · · As funding to Africa’s once fast-growing startups dries up, industry insiders are worried that the ecosystem is unprepared. · Shared by 124, including Tim
Our World in Data
The limits of our personal experience and the value of statistics
9 min · · The world is huge; to get a clear idea of what our world is like, we have to rely on carefully collected, well documented statistics. · Shared by 573, including Carly, Tim
NFX
Real Estate's Hidden AI Revolution
11+ min · · AI is optimizing a fragmented real estate production chain from planning to property management. It's initiating a productivity cascade. · Shared by 133, including Tim
The Washington Post
Many of today’s unhealthy foods were brought to you by Big Tobacco
· A new study suggests that tobacco companies, who were skilled at marketing cigarettes, used similar strategies to hook people on processed foods. · Shared by 163, including Tim
Visual Capitalist
Visualizing the World’s Growing Millionaire Population (2012-2022)
15+ min · · Shared by 150, including Tim
Guardian Tech
The meaning of life in a world without work
20+ min · · As technology renders jobs obsolete, what will keep us busy? Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari examines ‘the useless class’ and a new quest for purpose · Shared by 1370, including Antonio Vieira Santos, Claudia Sommer, Howard Getson, Dominik Grolimund, Liliane Ferrari ™, Jonathan Kogan, Andreas Von Gunten, Chris Messina, DonDahlmann, Nils Hitze, Katja Evertz, Thomas Power, Jane, Herbert Bay, Stephen C Sanders, Richard Joerges, Nir Eyal, Klaus Eck, Sergio Caredda, Kris Fannin
The Guardian
Fossil fuels being subsidised at rate of $13m a minute, says IMF
3 min · · Oil, gas and coal benefited from $7tn in support in 2022 despite being primary cause of climate crisis · Shared by 5, including Tim
The Guardian
Hopes of mild climate change dashed by new research
4 min · · Planet could heat up far more than hoped as new work shows temperature rises measured over recent decades don’t fully reflect global warming already in the pipeline · Shared by 11, including Natacha Quester-Séméon Salomon, Tim
The Guardian
Concrete: the most destructive material on Earth
19+ min · · After water, concrete is the most widely used substance on the planet. But its benefits mask enormous dangers to ecology, to health and to culture itself · Shared by 662, including Stephen Cairns, Jörgen Camrath, Jane, luis antónio santos, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Tim, Strong Towns, Matthias Lampe
Harvard Business Review
Can the Construction Industry Be Disrupted?
8 min · · Construction is often maligned as the industry that technology left behind. Industry observers routinely deride the lack of technological sophistication in the construction industry, and have pigeon… · Shared by 212, including Antonio Vieira Santos, Tim, AXSChat