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Michael Laxer
Oct 155 min read
When Children Are Murdered, What Is There to Celebrate?
By Vijay Prashad After news broke that Han Kang—the South Korean author—had won the Nobel Prize for Literature, her father—the novelist...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 911 min read
What Would a Real Renewable Energy Transition Look Like?
The seven steps that could help build a social movement and ensure a sustainable future. kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 104 min read
The Surprising Ways Inventions and Ideas Spread in Ancient Prehistory
You can learn a lot about humanity from the first technological revolutions of more than 10,000 years ago. By Brenna R. Hassett, Human...
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Michael Laxer
May 209 min read
Procter & Gamble, Mondelēz, and Nestlé Are Among 10 of the Leading Consumer Brands Driving Global Deforestation
Despite corporate commitments, deforestation rates remain high, and community land conflicts continue. Activists protest P&G's role in...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 2810 min read
Banks and Investors Are Fueling a Global Biodiversity Crisis
Commercial financial flows to the forest-risk commodity sectors are driving the majority of tropical deforestation. By Laurel Sutherlin...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 227 min read
Why Artificial Intelligence Must Be Stopped Now
The promise of AI is eclipsed by its perils, which include our own annihilation. By Richard Heinberg Those advocating for artificial...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 24 min read
The Adaptive Value of Teenagers: How Peer Learning Contributes to Primate Success
By Brenna R. Hassett Anthropological science is our species’ attempt to address our most fundamental questions about who we are and how...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 124 min read
Sperm Whales Have Culture Too: Strong Evidence That Clans, Culture, and Dialects Are Not Unique to Humans
Mother sperm whale and her baby -- Gabriel Barathieu, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia...
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