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- Peter Kalmus: ‘As a species, we’re on autopilot, not making the right decisions’
- The Nasa data scientist explains why inaction on the climate crisis pushed him to chain himself to an LA bank – and why trusting in the ‘people in charge’ is so dangerous
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- Inside Taylor Hawkins' Final Days as a Foo Fighter
- Floods, fires, coral bleaching: Politicians leading the country to climate catastrophe
- Foresight and prevention is more effective and cheaper than disaster recovery and cure. We still have time, but precious little of it.
- The Stories Behind Severance’s Eerie Office Design
- Mid-century furniture, out-of-time desktop computers, and childish “incentives” build the series’s office as haunted playground aesthetic.
- Some top 100,000 websites collect everything you type—before you hit submit
- ‘Burnout tech’ seeks to identify signs of workers’ mental distress by reading Slack messages and email
- Philippines election: torture survivors from Marcos era in shock after son’s win
- Factcheckers say Ferdinand Marcos Jr was overwhelming beneficiary of a flood of online disinformation before poll
- A Messy Table, a Map of the World
- Dutch still life paintings like this one do more than depict luxurious objects. They narrate history on a global scale.
- So the $35 sculpture you got at an Austin Goodwill was looted from a museum during WWII. Now what?
- Laura Young thought she had gotten a deal. She then grew attached to the marble bust while she tried to figure out how to return it.
- The Heresy of Christian Nationalism
- God doesn’t bless America. That’s not how this works. I’m sorry to break it to you, Bible Belt Christians—but that’s just how it is.
- Why we're switching from Wordpress to Kirby CMS
- The Climate Game — Can you reach net zero?
- See if you can save the planet from the worst effects of climate change
- What is a life-changing realization you wish you had sooner?
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- What happens to women's rights when democracy backslides
- From Nazi Germany to Mussolini’s Italy, fascists worked to repress the rights of women by restricting education and abortion rights. Now, there are echoes of that past again.
- Data Broker Is Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Abortion Clinics
- It costs just over $160 to get a week's worth of data on where people who visited Planned Parenthood came from, and where they went afterwards.
- Health Benefits Of Edible Bugs That Will Make You Say “Pass The Crickets”
- Whether you’re consuming them as a protein powder or the intact critters themselves, here’s what you need to know about the vitamins, nutrients, and healthy fats you can get from crickets and other edible insects.
- Facebook Doesn’t Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes
- “We do not have an adequate level of control and explainability over how our systems use data,” Facebook engineers say in leaked document.
- The 6 Best Mobility Exercises for Longevity
- Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows
- “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Justice Alito writes in an initial majority draft circulated inside the court.
- These Giant LEGO-like Building Blocks Let You Build Your Own Livable House
- Beyond WCAG: Losing Spoons Online
- There are only enough hours in the day, but for some there are also only enough spoons. Find out what spoons—or a shortage of them—means in a digital context
- Remains of Ancient Giant Sea Creatures Found In Swiss Alps
- “Those that we find in the Alps are really kind of ghosts,” said the study's lead author. “We know they are there. We know they're giant."
- 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
- Global warming will happen faster than we think
- Three trends will combine to hasten it, warn Yangyang Xu, Veerabhadran Ramanathan and David G. Victor.
- A severe heat waves is gripping India. It's not even summer yet.
- March maximum temperatures were the highest in 122 years. Temperatures late this week could near April records.
- The Worst-Case Scenario for Elon Musk's Twitter
- Better Things finale: The FX series marks the end of an era.
- Before the streaming boom succumbed to algorithmic rot, anything was possible.
- Climate activist Wynn Bruce dies after setting himself on fire outside of US Supreme Court
- 'This act is not suicide. This is a deeply fearless act of compassion to bring attention to climate crisis. We are piecing together info but he had been planning it for at least one year.'
- Twitter: Elon Musk takeover announced with Tesla titan to shell out $44bn
- Entrepreneur will pay $54.20 cash per share and deal is expected to close in 2022
- Why are women philosophers often erased from collective memory?
- The history of ideas still struggles to remember the names of notable women philosophers. Mary Hesse is a salient example
- De twee-eenheid Schiphol en KLM is al lang geen motor meer van onze economie
- De economische opbrengsten van meer vluchten en meer passagiers wegen niet op tegen de overlast. Maar: ‘Je krijgt te maken met een oer-Hollands gevoel en met Hollands glorie.’
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- Muting your mic reportedly doesn’t stop big tech from recording your audio
- Robert Eggers on ‘The Northman’: Directing Is an ‘Insane’ Job
- The director explains why he sought out such difficult conditions, why he won’t talk with an actor about a character’s back story and why the box office matters.
- Opinion | Riding a Bike in America Should Not Be This Dangerous
- Bicyclists and pedestrians are dying at alarming rates. Do we have the courage to remake our car-centric streets?
- Macron zou Frankrijk bij elkaar brengen – het liep anders
- Als Macron aankomende zondag wordt herkozen, begint hij in veel opzichten weer bij nul.
- Netflix’s Bad Habits Have Caught Up With It
- Netflix announced the shocking news Tuesday that for the first time in a decade, it actually lost subscribers during a fiscal quarter
- How to Move Your Team Toward Async-First Communication
- Advice for team leaders and team members who want to bring more calm, focused productivity to the workplace
- Mud-caked feet, berries for breakfast and hiding from hunters: my life as a deer
- When still a teenager, Geoffroy Delorme dropped out of his lonely childhood to live among the animals in the woods of Normandy – and stayed for seven years. What did it do to him?
- Skara Brae - World History Encyclopedia
- a Neolithic Age site, consisting of ten stone structures, near the Bay of Skaill, Orkney, Scotland. Today the village is situated by the shore but when it was inhabited (c.3100-2500 BCE) it would have been further inland.
- How to spot great remote jobs
- The Joel test for remote work