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50 simple ways to make your life greener

Guardian Environment
20+ min read · From 2020 · Expert tips on how to be kinder to the planet – from cooking and cleaning to fashion and finance
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Vox

The animals that may exist in a million years, imagined by biologists

Vox
8 min read · 2021-10-20 · Fully aquatic whale-rats. Praying mantises the size of dogs. Scientists imagine the future evolution of life on Earth.
Reader View · Shared by 387, including Merkstatt, Brian Resnick, Svein Tveitdal
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Giant bugs evolving in the future would be “really, really cool,” Alter said. Especially so, she added, “if humans are actually around to see them.”
Demis Hassabis

AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology

Demis Hassabis
8 min read · 2020-11-30 · In a major scientific advance, the latest version of our AI system AlphaFold has been recognised as a solution to this grand challenge by the organisers of the biennial Critical Assessment of protein…
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OneZero

Why 2020 to 2050 Will Be ‘the Most Transformative Decades in Human History’

OneZero
8 min read · From 2020 · Climate change will force more people to leave their homes than at any other point in human history. Conflict is inevitable.
Reader View · Shared by 374, including Katja Evertz, Ines Bieler, Mark Little, Graham Brown-Martin, Tim, Simon C, Eric Holthaus, Dennis Schvejda, Matthias Lampe
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Big Think

Simple is beautiful: Why evolution repeatedly selects symmetrical structures

Big Think
3 min read · May 3rd · Symmetrical objects are less complex than non-symmetrical ones. Perhaps evolution acts as an algorithm with a bias toward simplicity.
Reader View · Shared by 362, including Ines Bieler, LARRY ELKAN
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MIT Press 🏳️‍🌈

An Environmentalist’s Lessons for an Improvisational Life

MIT Press 🏳️‍🌈
9 min read · Jan 6th · Improvisation is the essence of environmental learning, sparking the imagination, stimulating creativity, and helping us reinvigorate how we think about our residency on Earth.
Reader View · Shared by 357, including Tarik ESSAADI, Gregor B. Rosenauer
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watching the breeze gently ruffle the patches of open water
Guardian Environment

Why you should go animal-free: 18 arguments for eating meat debunked

Guardian Environment
~12 min read · From 2020 · Unpalatable as it may be for those wedded to producing and eating meat, the environmental and health evidence for a plant-based diet is clear
Reader View · Shared by 357, including Katja Evertz, Ray Monk, A S K Chaitanya Reddy, Mike Butcher🇬🇧🇪🇺, Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦, Liv 😷, MariadPDC, Damian Carrington, Carly, Elrond Burrell (he/him), George Monbiot, Birgit Schefer
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Our World in Data

You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether…

Our World in Data
2 min read · From 2020 · ‘Eat local’ is a common recommendation to reduce the carbon footprint of your diet. But transport tends to account for a small share of greenhouse gas emissions. How does the impact of what you eat…
Reader View · Shared by 351, including Ray Monk, Marshall Shepherd, Vincenzo Tremonte, Philip Junker, Noah Iliinsky, Hannah Ritchie, Matthias Lampe, Elrond Burrell (he/him), Jakob Adler, René Clausen Nielsen, Jennifer Stirrup - Next: #EverywhereWorkplace, George Monbiot, Rob Moffat, Oliver Ewinger, Thomas Pleil, Max Roser, Katja Evertz, Joe Lencioni, Jonathan Kogan, Merkstatt
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sciencefocus.com

Tonge volcano: A scientist explains what we know about the eruption

sciencefocus.com
6 min read · Jan 19th · The eruption of the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano caused a tsunami, 400,000 lighting strikes and shockwaves that have circled the planet at least twice. Here's everything we know about the Tonga…
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London Review of Books

Francis Gooding · From Its Myriad Tips: Mushroom Brain

London Review of Books
~12 min read · 2021-05-13 · Fungi are diffuse, plastic beings: they reform themselves around the problem at hand. ‘Mycelium’, says Merlin...
Reader View · Shared by 330, including Paul Kedrosky, Nolen Gertz, Ser Jeff Garzik, Shannon (we're already in space) Stirone 💀, Dr. Genevieve Guenther, Maggie Fox 🇺🇦, Paul Bloom, Carolyn Porco, ljubljana scumbag, Damon Young, Ellen Shapiro, Chris Bertram, Allison Arieff, ❤️ Umair, Alex J. Champandard, Robin Wigglesworth, Liam Bright, Kelsey D. Atherton, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Chris Sacca 🇺🇸
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Dazed

In defence of pigeons

Dazed
6 min read · Jun 2nd · Winged rats or war heroes? A life-changing trip to Atelier Gardens in Berlin forces James Greig to confront his own prejudices about the too-often-maligned bird – here, he encourages us to do the same
Reader View · Shared by 327
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The Guardian

Antarctic temperature rises above 20C for first time on record

The Guardian
3 min read · From 2020 · Scientists describe 20.75C logged at Seymour Island as ‘incredible and abnormal’
Reader View · Shared by 320, including George M 🇪🇺, Merkstatt, Hendrik Epe 🇪🇺, Neuropsychology, Matthias Lampe, J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்), Marius Bleuer, Eric Holthaus, Grzegorz Wapiński, Claudia Sommer, Hendrik Dietrich, Jansnet, Matteo Fogli, Inês Silva
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