Seen in → No.59
- Airbnb Backyard will sell houses in 2019
- Canada puts Big Tech on notice by signing Internet guidelines
- Researchers create ‘master key’ fingerprints that can fool biometric databases
- Great Twitter thread by Katharine Hayhoe, answering the inaccurate statements (lies) made by a number of politicians and pundits about The Fourth US National Climate Assessment. Bringing the facts, the science, and even the cute videos.
- As corals decline, a new kind of reef emerges. “Even as corals die, sponges proliferate. Coral reefs become sponge reefs.” A couple of examples “off the coast of Brazil and the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.”
- Clean Power Sees First Win Over Fossil Fuels in Emerging Markets. “Developing countries have added more clean power capacity than fossil fuel generation for the first time ever, charging ahead of wealthier nations in the global green energy push, according to Bloomberg NEF.”
- What Einstein meant by ‘God does not play dice’. “But Einstein’s was a God of philosophy, not religion. When asked many years later whether he believed in God, he replied: ‘I believe in Spinoza’s God, who reveals himself in the lawful harmony of all that exists, but not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.’”
- How Giant, Intelligent Snails Became a Marker of Our Age. “[T]he giant African snail, reveals humans’ impact on the world and will create fossils that are “robust and frequent … large enough to be rapidly detectable, and characteristic enough to be easily identified.” These snails are part of our lasting legacy on Earth.”