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?
The post A Slow-Moving Disaster in California appeared first on Nautilus.
Some of the power of math lies in the very fact that it’s made up.
The post We’re All Math People appeared first on Nautilus.
A conversation with “rational mystic,” physicist Marcelo Gleiser.
The post The Astrophysicist Who Loves the Things We Cannot Know appeared first on Nautilus.
Violent gangsterism and illegal operations dominate sand mining in the global south.
The post Sand Mafias Battle for the New Gold appeared first on Nautilus.
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.
The post Do Homelessness Prevention Programs Work? appeared first on Nautilus.
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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Just as I uncovered a new way to understand life, I got news about my own.
The post How Life Really Works appeared first on Nautilus.
Ruth Dukes and Wolfgang Streeck’s Democracy at Work: Contract, Status and Post-Industrial Justice is a welcome contribution to a new wave of thinking about industrial democracy, one that will hopefully help us reverse the historical trend and meaningfully implement industrial democratic principles into our political economy.
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