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Gemma Ware at The Conversation: 3D-printed guns are appearing the world over, including in the hands of organised criminals in Europe and anti-junta rebels in Myanmar. Made using a 3D
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“From studying 50-plus civil wars and revolutions, it became clear that the single most reliable leading indicator of civil war or revolution is bankrupt government finances combined with big wealth
Ed Simon at The Millions: There are two irrefutable axioms that can be made about jazz. The first is that jazz is America’s most significant cultural contribution to the world;
Eric Schmid at Undark: For 20 years, Pablo Sobron sought a better way to learn exactly what was in the soil, rock, or any other substance on Mars. Instead of
Continue readingThe Promise of Precision Agriculture Is Slowly Coming to Fruition
Between my finger and my thumbThe squat pen rests; snug as a gun. Under my window, a clean rasping soundWhen the spade sinks into gravelly ground:My father, digging. I look
Marisa Wright at The Millions: In Glynnis MacNicol’s second memoir, I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself, pleasure is political. The narrative follows the weeks MacNicol spent in Paris in late summer 2021
Luke Gebel et al in Nature: The Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge, UK, is a world leader in basic biology research. The lab’s list of breakthroughs
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by Tara Isabella Burton at Wisdom of Crowds: It is easy to be nostalgic for all kinds of unpleasant things. We are nostalgic for unhappy childhoods, brutal educational institutions, unhappy
Continue readingLockdown Nostalgia: I Miss Only Caring About What Really Matters
Liz Wolfe at Reason: Many have theorized that the fence sitters in this election aren’t really looking to be persuaded—it’s not as if much light will be shed on the
Continue readingPresidential Debate: Will this Election Come Down to the “Double Haters”?
The trite answer to the question of why empires fall is that they become victims of their own success, growing too large, too corrupt, and too exhausted to fend off
And it was thenthat with a tongue dead and cold in the mouthhe sang the song others allowed him to singin this world of obscene gardens and shadowscoming at unseemly
Emma Bryce at Anthropocene: This is more than just another AI gimmick, the University of Bonn researchers say: their new tool could help guide farmers on how to raise crops