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In their efforts to industrialise, African states are looking beyond the traditional path of transition from agrarian to industrial economies by seeking to leverage on their natural resources, both in/on land and ocean, to power industrialisation. In this blog post, drawing from a new article in Journal of Agrarian Change, that agrarian political economy theories of industrialisation need to be advanced to cover the ocean and offshore petroleum production in Ghana.

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An artwork, sculpted with science, defines our times.

The post The Enemy Made Visible appeared first on Nautilus.

Nearly every evolutionary question can find an answer in mucus.

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Nuclear winter is just the beginning.

The post What Nuclear War Means for the Ocean appeared first on Nautilus.

Your brain is not the root of cognition.

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One question for Jillian Scudder, astrophysicist and author of “The Milky Way Smells of Rum & Raspberries.”

The post How Will the Universe Evolve? appeared first on Nautilus.

This post introduces readers to the second Special Issue we have co-edited on the umbrella theme of ‘Politicizing Artistic Pedagogies’. The first Special Issue, entitled ‘Politicizing Artistic Pedagogies: Publics, Spaces, Teachings’, was published in late 2021 in the journal Art & the Public Sphere. There was a subsequent Progress in Political Economy Forum containing several blog posts which drew on articles in that issue. The second Special Issue is now out and is entitled ‘Politicizing Artistic Pedagogies: Disciplines, Practices, Struggles’. Our editorial roles switched for the issue, with Mel taking the lead this time. This reflects the distinctive outlook and coverage of the two issues: the first has a broader, more societal scope, while the second has more of an art-discipline/practice focus. Nevertheless, as noted in our essay introducing the first issue, we still believe that ‘the two issues should be understood as complementary and thus together comprising a greater “whole”…[and] we have ensured that there are still plenty of overlaps between them’ [...].

Richard Feynman’s path integral is both a powerful prediction machine and a philosophy about how the world is. But physicists are still struggling to figure out how to use it, and what it means.

The post How Our Reality May Be a Sum of All Possible Realities appeared first on Nautilus.

A parasite infection can make a leader of the pack—or a dead wolf.

The post What Makes Us Bold appeared first on Nautilus.

The post To Increase the Supply of Workers, Our Economy <span class="dewidow">Needs Childcare</span> appeared first on Roosevelt Institute.