For decades, researchers have debated whether brain cells called astrocytes can signal like neurons.
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Mercedes Biocca’s The Silences of Dispossession: Agrarian Change and Indigenous Politics in Argentina provides excellent accounts of Indigenous participation in and resistance to the dispossession by the capitalist and neoliberal apparatuses of accumulation and elimination.
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The most complete maps we have of the ocean floor lag far behind the maps we have of the moon.
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More than 90 percent of coastal wetlands have been altered or destroyed. What’s next?
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Some of the power of math lies in the very fact that it’s made up.
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A conversation with “rational mystic,” physicist Marcelo Gleiser.
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Violent gangsterism and illegal operations dominate sand mining in the global south.
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This winning image of a match catching fire brings to mind the wildfires engulfing our increasingly flammable world.
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The first evidence from a randomized controlled trial that financial assistance helps prevent homelessness.
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In my recent article in Contemporary Political Theory, I demonstrate that the convergence of fascistic and neoliberal politics is not a novel contemporary phenomenon as is widely presumed, but rather has historical roots in the political context of the 1930s and 1940s. I examine a group of political actors and thinkers who were active in both neoliberal and fascist movements, and unpack the logics that led these figures to believe the fascist politics of the 1930s were compatible with the nascent neoliberal movement in which they all also participated.
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