How reducing our dependence on fossil fuels will mean changing how—and specifically what time of day—we use electricity.
↩︎ Austin Vernon
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Shakespeare wrote Macbeth. Virgil wrote the Aeneid. But if Homer may yet be called author of the Odyssey, he did not write it as they did.
↩︎ Harvard Magazine
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A weekly updated database of educational gag orders: legislative efforts to restrict teaching on race, history, gender, et al.
↩︎ The PEN Index of Edu…
The University of Texas makes $6 million a day off some mineral-rich land it manages in the US’s largest oil field.
↩︎ Bloomberg
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Based on findings from a medieval map, researchers think a legendary pair of underwater Welsh islands may be real.
↩︎ Motherboard
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Another reason to avoid human extinction: It’s unlikely another technologically capable species would take our place.
↩︎ WIRED
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An artist who duct-taped a banana to a wall in 2019 is being sued by another artist who created a very similar work 20 years ago.
↩︎ The Guardian
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By translating astronomical data into audible sound, NASA lets us hear the sound of a black hole.
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