New Zealand is about to test long-range wireless power transmission
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Singularity Hub
New Zealand Is About to Test Long-Range Wireless Power Transmission
Startup Emrod is building a system to wirelessly beam power over long distances and plans to test the system with New Zealand's second largest utility.
The end of dispersed camping?
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Hatch Magazine - Fly Fishing, etc.
The end of dispersed camping?
I love to camp. I love to camp almost as much as I love to fish. Being outside, far from city lights and city traffic, is soul-building. Dropping the jacks on my little camper overlooking a stretch of fishy water and spending a week away from computer screens…
Coronavirus: Why aren’t death rates rising with case numbers? A UK perspective
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The Conversation
Coronavirus: why aren’t death rates rising with case numbers?
Eventually, mortality rates from COVID-19 will fall as the proportion of people who have had the disease rises.
Sweden’s low positive test rate ‘vindicates coronavirus strategy’
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www.thetimes.co.uk
Sweden’s low positive test rate ‘vindicates coronavirus strategy’
Sweden Sweden registered its lowest rate of positive coronavirus tests yet even as its testing regime has been expanded to record levels, in what some experts regard as a vindication of its comparatively unintrusive Covid-19 strategy.Over the past week the…
Animal Populations Fell by 68% in 50 Years and It’s Getting Worse
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Bloomberg.com
Animal Populations Fell by 68% in 50 Years and It’s Getting Worse
Food production and other human activities are destroying the very systems they rely on, according to a new study
The Corn of the Future Is Hundreds of Years Old and Makes Its Own Mucus
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Smithsonian Magazine
The Corn of the Future Is Hundreds of Years Old and Makes Its Own Mucus
This rare variety of corn has evolved a way to make its own nitrogen, which could revolutionize farming
As family life erodes, young men feel mistrust and nihilism
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City Journal
Family Instability Fuels Rising Nihilism Among Young Men
As family and community life erode, mistrust and nihilism are potent among young men—the most likely participants in violent upheavals.
Extinction Rebellion: Nuclear power 'only option' says former spokeswoman
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BBC News
Extinction Rebellion: Nuclear power 'only option' says former spokeswoman
Zion Lights says a car-crash TV interview led her to rethink her support for Extinction Rebellion.
Wildlife in ‘catastrophic decline’ due to human destruction, scientists warn
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Bbc
Wildlife in 'catastrophic decline' due to human destruction, scientists warn
Conservation group WWF says global wildlife populations have shrunk by two-thirds since 1970.
In the animal kingdom, the astonishing power of the number instinct
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The MIT Press Reader
The Remarkable Ways Animals Understand Numbers
A host of studies examining animals in their ecological environments suggest that they have evolved to use numbers in order to exploit food sources, avoid predators, and reproduce.
Nature's Decline Unprecedented; Species Extinction Rates Accelerating
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United Nations Sustainable Development
UN Report: Nature's Dangerous Decline 'Unprecedented'; Species Extinction Rates 'Accelerating' - United Nations Sustainable Development
Current global response insufficient;
'Transformative changes' needed to restore and protect nature;
Opposition from vested interests can be overcome for public good
Most comprehensive assessment of its kind;
1,000,000 species threatened with extinction…
'Transformative changes' needed to restore and protect nature;
Opposition from vested interests can be overcome for public good
Most comprehensive assessment of its kind;
1,000,000 species threatened with extinction…
Going to elite Indian colleges improves earnings, but not test scores
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The Economist
Going to elite Indian colleges improves earnings, but not test scores
The value is about more than just learning
Long-term stress is the default mode of the 21st century
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Substack
#11 The Thin End of The Wedge
Long-term stress is the default mode of the 21st century.