Scientists estimate the total mass of ants on Earth at about 12 megatons of dry carbon, or nearly 20 quadrillion ants.
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With Brazil’s government encouraging deforesting the Amazon, preservationists try to sell carbon offsets to protect land.
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Multiple things explain the difficulty of nabbing restaurant reservations right now. One big issue: wealthy people’s workarounds.
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Bandcamp has a nice feature about Chris Watson, previously a member of the band Cabaret Voltaire, now an expert in field recordings.
“There’s been a massive change in people’s interest in and desire for the natural wor…
Noga Arikha: Loss is central to life, but digital existence has made us all into hoarders. Is everything vanity now?
↩︎ The European Review of Books
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It may now be seen as a dystopian nightmare, the far-flung folly of an autocrat desperate for global approval, but the idea of building a self-contained linear city has preoccupied the imaginations of architects and plann…
Traditional buildings and materials last not only because they are proven to possess beauty but also because they are answers to the unchanging needs of human nature.
↩︎ Wrath of Gnon
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Thanks to advances in AI, scientists can create completely new proteins in seconds—a process that used to take months.
↩︎ Nature
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