There are no such things as coincidences.
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Barry Buzan's Making Global Society: A Study of Humanking Across Three Eras is a big and an ambitious book. In this volume he tells us the story of 50,000 years of humankind by constructing a “world history” (p. xi) with the social structure of humankind as its object of study. In doing so, Buzan has undertaken two main tasks.
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Bird brain scans and dinosaur fossils hint at when the first creatures grew wings.
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Meet Susan and Joe. Their daily observations of the groundhogs in their yard are making science history.
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Terraforming Mars could risk exterminating the very lifeforms we dream of discovering.
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Could AI help me compose a musical expression of love?
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Love languages aren’t a thing, and sex every day is probably overdoing it.
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What casual sex, pigeon relationships, and a drug for broken hearts can tell us about love.
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The critique of settler space is a pressing task in the context of movements for Indigenous justice in settler-colonial societies across the world. My recently awarded PhD thesis contributes to this critique by investigating the historical production of settler space, on the premise that thinking through this project of settler spatial history may help shed light on the contradictions and contours of settler spaces today. It is available to download from the University of Sydney Library here.
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It’s time to rethink what tools reveal about animal intelligence and evolution.
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