A Forest of Furniture Is Growing in England.
Creating The Next Bechdel Test.
We pitted 50 movies against 12 new ways of measuring Hollywood’s gender imbalance.
A different dimension of loss.
Inside the great insect die-off.
Scientists have identified 2 million species of living things. No one knows how many more are out there, and tens of thousands may be vanishing before we have even had a chance to encounter them.
How do I hide and still be found?
Source: aeon.co
- Yacob and Amo: Africa’s precursors to Locke, Hume and Kant.
- How climate change and disease helped the fall of Rome.
- The minds of plants.
- In cold blood – Therapeutic hypothermia could save lives, propel interstellar travel and expand consciousness.
- Soon the particular solitude of the lighthouse keeper will be lost to automation.
- Even if genes affect intelligence, we can’t engineer cleverness.
- Our enemies are human: that’s why we want to kill them.
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Could AI help to create a meat-free world?
(…) eliminating meat from the human diet would cut up to 60% of the food-related greenhouse emissions, and free up the disproportionate share of fresh water and agricultural land that livestock use. There also are the many ethical, labour, land and garbage disposal issues around big meat processing plants.
“We fired our top developer talent. Best decision we ever made.”
Genius is a fickle beast. Sometimes you have the good fortune to work with a mad genius. Other times you are doomed to work with pure madness. There are also times when it is hard to tell the difference.
Supernaked: Die Akte Grasser als Film.
Wie kann man die Vorwürfe im größten Korruptionsprozess der Zweiten Republik so darstellen, dass sie jeder versteht?
How to Read Mathematics.
The whole thing makes me uncomfortable.