Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres.
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The importance of feeling small and insignificant.
The post How a Total Eclipse Alters Your Psyche appeared first on Nautilus.
In our latest essay in Socialist Register 2024 on the Ukraine War we deliver a contribution to understanding contemporary geopolitics without shying away from placing our concerns within an analysis of capitalism.
The post The Geopolitics of Global Capitalism and Ukraine appeared first on Progress in Political Economy (PPE).
Ancient currents seemed to move in concert with a 2.4 million-year dance between the Red Planet and Earth.
The post Do Our Oceans Feel the Tug of Mars? appeared first on Nautilus.
Making art out of an invisible world that shapes human health and disease.
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A new study says climate change is messing with the math.
The post How Much Carbon Can a Tree Really Store? appeared first on Nautilus.
How a shared love of algae got a community of women hooked on marine science.
The post The Women Who Found Liberation in Seaweed appeared first on Nautilus.
For some, a night without sleep causes mood-boosting changes in the brain.
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Why it's time for new ways of naming life.
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In my new book Animals and Capital, I follow through the implications of Marx’s value theory for thinking about capitalist animal agriculture. One important argument of the book is that animal labour power can be understood from the perspective of value, and this provides a fresh way to look at the factory farm.
The post What is the Factory Farm? Notes from Animals and Capital appeared first on Progress in Political Economy (PPE).