Seen in → No.83
- Great 🧵 by Alex Evans on Twitter: “How do we get enough of us to see ourselves as part of a Larger Us rather than a them-and-us (or just an atomised ‘I’)? This is *the* question in an age of climate breakdown, mass extinction and rampant tribalism. And it’s the subject of our new @Collective_Psyc report out today.” (Report and summary article at the bottom of the thread.)
- 🕶 Second op-ed from the future at the NYT. Keep Your Augmented Reality. Give Me a Secret Garden. “I had no idea iGlasses hide the places where people aren’t supposed to go: condemned houses, vertical farms, drone mews. Without the glasses, I could see entire buildings that augmented reality made invisible. And right next to the car, a huge dark hole opened up, like the mouth of a cave.”
- 🍷🇫🇷 Thanks to Drones, French Wine Tastes Better. “The captured photos, once assembled by Delair software, turn into a highly realistic 3D rendering: a video-game-like universe, or a Google Maps on steroids. The detail of the vine on the virtual map goes down to smaller than half an inch. By studying it, winemakers figure out answers to questions such as how much fertilizer to spray based on the abundance of foliage.”
- 🧬⏰ The Body’s Clock Offers a Rhythmic Target to Viruses. “Viruses and other parasites may sync with their host’s biological clock — or reset it — to gain an advantage.”
- 🌳🏴 Storm Hannah uncovers Borth ‘sunken’ underwater forest. “The forest has become associated with a 17th Century myth of a sunken civilization known as ‘Cantre’r Gwaelod’, or the ‘Sunken Hundred’.”
- ☀️ Space weather affects your daily life. It’s time to start paying attention. “Hers is a relatively new field. She details things like solar wind, solar flares, geomagnetic storms, and coronal mass ejections—streams of charged particles and magnetic fields that originate in our star’s outer atmosphere.”
- 👍🏼🚲🇲🇲 This entrepreneur is donating unwanted bike-sharing cycles to underprivileged students in Myanmar
- ❤️📚 Chicago Finds a Way to Improve Public Housing: Libraries
- 📚🇨🇳 X+living completes chongqing zhongshuge bookstore in china with escher-like stairs