A tendency to reframe negative events may be embedded in our neurobiology.
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A new “post-quantum” theory of gravity says we can wave dark matter and dark energy goodbye.
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Indigenous words for fishes open a window into endangered cultures.
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Following the eradication of invasive goats, giant tortoises are once again flourishing in the Galápagos islands.
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Scanning animal patterns like bar codes boosts conservation.
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The conjucture of the first few decades of the twenty-first century witnessed Alex Callinicos usefully mapping the contours of imperialism as set out in his pivotal book Imperialism and Global Political Economy. As somewhat of a successor text, this is now accompanied by The New Age of Catastrophe that seeks to address today’s conjuncture of the multidimensional crisis (or polycrisis), the conditions of which are situated as immanent to capitalism as a totality. The creativity of Imperialism and Global Political Economy flowed from Callinicos offering an innovative reading of Nikolai Bukharin to propose a theory of imperialism at the intersection of two logics of power: capitalistic and territorial, or two forms of competition, economic and geopolitical. The book bears repeated revisiting. Indeed, I have done so recently in an article for the pages of International Affairs (see ‘Mainstreaming Marxism’, International Affairs 99: 3, 2023). There I demonstrate how unique Marxist approaches to both the structural theory of anarchy (drawing from Nikolai Bukharin) and racial capitalism (drawing from C.L.R.
A new study suggests that so-called emergent abilities actually develop gradually and predictably, depending on how you measure them.
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Gowan Dawson on his 3 greatest revelations while writing his book Monkey to Man.
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And how conservationists are finding them.
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The loss of ice on Kilimanjaro and other peaks will upend ecosystems and livelihoods.
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