A counterpoint to the “brain-centric view of sleep” suggests that sleep evolved for metabolic reasons, way before brains existed.
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Edgar Allen Poe’s bestselling book during his lifetime was a textbook about shells, subtitled “A System of Testaceous Malacology.”
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“I’m not convinced he’s dead.” Mysteries and investigations linger around the Quadriga fraud and death of CEO Gerald Cotten.
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From 2014: a computer historian shows how to (slowly, painstakingly) mine Bitcoin by hand.
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United invests in resurrecting supersonic travel, but with nothing to prove its claim of achieving net-zero carbon emissions.
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Public narratives around existential issues like climate change are shaped by these interwoven algorithmic and economic logics, logics that are presently leveraged by the fossil fuel industry.
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The Army Corps of Engineers recommends a 20-foot, six-mile seawall to save Miami from the climate crisis.
↩︎ Yahoo! News
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Big cities like L.A. can be remade incrementally and almost invisibly—by building density in “an abundance of wasted space.”
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A graph of how the Art Institute of Chicago’s collection has grown from 1879 to 2021.
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