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When whiteness and wealth are posed as the norm, a kind of force field of aesthetics and ideology keeps out anyone…
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
it referred to what the piece defined as tastelessness marked by "a contrast of luxury and squalor."$9
Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation
This led her to propose the concept of gene regulation, which challenged the theory of the genome as a static set of instructions passed from one generation to the next. The work McClintock first reported in 1950, the result of projective thinking, extensive research, persistence, and a willingness to suspend disbelief, wasn’t understood or
... See moreDavid Brooks • This Will Make You Smarter
The Atlantic's Sarah Zhang on covering the science and emotion of ...
niemanlab.org
If one were to ascribe a specific date to the dawn of modern climate science, a strong case could be made for August 23, 1856—though its significance went unrecognized for 150 years. Eunice Newton Foote was an artist, inventor, citizen scientist, and early suffragist from upstate New York whose singular contribution to climate science was lost in
... See moreJohn Vaillant • Fire Weather
well within the planet’s Roche limit31
Liu, Cixin • The Three-Body Problem
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/could-the-sun-unleash-dangerous-superflares/
Could the Sun Fry Earth with a Superflare?
Stars like the sun might erupt with extreme explosions about once per century
By Phil Plait edited by Lee Billings
In our daily lives, the sun seems constant and quiet, sedately shining at a steady pace. But looks can be
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