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In Praise of Print: Why Reading Remains Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse
Ed Simon
When the witty and wry English fantasy novelist Terry Pratchett interviewed Bill Gates for GQ in 1995, only 39% of Americans had access to a home computer. According to the Pew Research Center, the n ...[Continue Reading]
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Doing Development in the Polycrisis
Yuen Yuen Ang
The polycrisis is paralyzing only for those who are attached to the old order of mechanistic and colonial thinking. For those who are not, it offers a polytunity to usher in new paradigms that invert ...[Continue Reading]
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Disco Elysium And Gaming In Times Of Uncertainty
G Kirilloff, Contributor, G Kirilloff, Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/gabikirilloff/
Man posing in the dark with a fedora hat and a trench coat, 1950s noir film style character getty ZA/UMs masterpiece Disco Elysium(2019) offers a reminder that uncertainty, while painful, can also ...[Continue Reading]
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'It is a treasure': Wreck off Kenyan coast may be from Vasco da Gama's final voyage
Tom Metcalfe
A wreck off the coast of Kenya may have been a ship from one of Vasco da Gama's pioneering voyages into the Indian Ocean 500 years ago, archaeologists say. The remains of the vessel, which were disc ...[Continue Reading]
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A Quick Survey of Canadian Lake Monsters
Stefan Raets
Canada is big. Really big. And has hundreds of thousands of lakes. Over 100,000 in Manitoba alone, according to the Canadian Broadcast Corporation. At least a few of these lakes have their own monste ...[Continue Reading]
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NASA Successfully Completed Communications Test With Distant Spacecraft That Achieves Data Transmission Rates 100 Times Faster Than Previously Possible
Michael Levanduski
Fast and accurate communication is something that most people today enjoy and really dont even have to think much about. When it comes to communicating with spacecraft traveling through our solar sy ...[Continue Reading]
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