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"Herbert Kroemer, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who spearheaded the
development of a new kind of semiconductor, leading to Information Age advances
at the heart of everything from bar-code scanners, CD players and cellphones to
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"Heat pumps are an alternative to gas boilers and wood stoves for indoor
heating.
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'"Enshittification" isn't just a way of describing the
symptoms of platform
decay: it's also a theory of the
mechanism of decay – the means by which
platforms get shittier and shittier until they are a giant pile of shit.
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https://theconversation.com/could-spending-a-billion-dollars-actually-bring-solar-manufacturing-back-to-australia-its-worth-a-shot-226809>
"Solar SunShot is well named. The Australian government announced today it
would plough A$1 billion into bringing back solar manufacturing to Australia,
boosting energy security, swapping coal and gas jobs for those in the solar
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https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2024/03/26/1240779167/how-do-we-halt-the-next-pandemic-be-kind-to-critters-like-bats-says-a-new-paper>
'Almost every pandemic we've seen over the last century has come from a virus
that's spilled over into humans from an animal. "Generally, pandemics are seen
as a biomedical problem," says Raina Plowright, an infectious disease ecologist
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/122782 (free download)
"The war in Ukraine has altered the course of global history. These authors
explore how.
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'Nowruz, which means "new day," marks the joyous arrival of spring, coinciding
precisely with the vernal equinox. On this day, the Earth's tilt brings equal
measures of daylight and darkness, symbolizing a fresh start. Celebrated across
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https://theconversation.com/marine-protected-areas-safeguard-more-than-ecology-they-bring-economic-benefits-to-fisheries-and-tourism-225337>
"Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) have been used as a conservation measure for
decades, but critics continue to argue that evidence of their economic benefits
is weak, particularly with regard to fisheries.
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