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About the use of videogames as military propaganda and how that makes everyone responsible, from developers to journalists.
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Previously, scientists and linguists thought that Uto-Aztecan languages spread into California through the spread of maize farming, but a new study questions that idea.
Tags: america, language, history, science
Tags: religion, antiquity
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The 16th-century “Florentine Codex” offers a Mexican Indigenous perspective that is often missing from historical accounts of the period.
Tags: history, books
the hottest temperature our planet has experienced in something like 125,000 years
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On a particularly bad day for digital media, a thought about where we should go next. Hint: Let’s stop talking about scale.
Tags: social media, economics
We’ve talked about it before, but this has been a year of strikes - and successful ones, at that. Today we chronicle some of these.
Tags: america, work
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The fall of Roe v. Wade has had its predictable consequences, a year out: not a reduction in overall abortion rates, but a reduction in the quality of reproductive healthcare.
Told you so.
Tags: america, health, law, environment
A big percentage of so-called experts today only know how to configure tools, but they understand nothing about how things work at the deeper level. This is a real challenge and a big problem for the future.
Tags: programming, ethics
They took a page out of Big Tobacco’s playbook, a new investigation confirms.
Tags: health, energy
The billionaire says he wants to lead a "techno-optimist" revolution. But he's too rich to understand that his belief system is stupid.
Tags: tech, ethics
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During the COVID-19 stay-at-home advisories of 2020, the world quieted. As a community noise researcher, I felt the changes acutely.
Tags: cities, health
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Antisemitism is a big no-no, but Islamophobia is official state policy. Gotcha.
Tags: france, politics
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The expression "shiver me timbers" was first recorded in print in 1795, and since then, it's appeared everywhere from Treasure Island to SpongeBob SquarePants. But it's unclear whether this phrase was ever truly part of the pirate vernacular.
Tags: language, history
Short version: we're already at 2C global warming in the northern hemisphere, and might reach 1.5C globally by the end of the year. Also, half the ice in Antarctica might plunge into the ocean and melt, if not this December then next December. It will raise the ocean level by three meters when that happens. When, not if.
Tags: climate, disaster
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