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Book review 📚 AI hype, crackling northern lights and more: take it all in with these holiday reads
go.nature.com/4lspkMN
go.nature.com/4lspkMN
AI hype, crackling northern lights and more: take it all in with these holiday reads
Ten of Nature’s recent contributors share their current book obsessions.
go.nature.com
July 14, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Book review 📚 AI hype, crackling northern lights and more: take it all in with these holiday reads
go.nature.com/4lspkMN
go.nature.com/4lspkMN
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Denied permission to drill in a national park in Assam, Oil India Ltd. turns it into a research project.
Resource extraction has been foundational to the logic of politics in Assam but has marginalised local communities. @dollykikon.bsky.social wrote in 2020.
www.theindiaforum.in/article/toxi...
Resource extraction has been foundational to the logic of politics in Assam but has marginalised local communities. @dollykikon.bsky.social wrote in 2020.
www.theindiaforum.in/article/toxi...
Toxic Ecologies
The ecological destruction from the Baghjan gas well blowout is part of the story of Assam’s economic development. Resource extraction has been foundational to the logic of politics in Assam but has m...
www.theindiaforum.in
February 7, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Denied permission to drill in a national park in Assam, Oil India Ltd. turns it into a research project.
Resource extraction has been foundational to the logic of politics in Assam but has marginalised local communities. @dollykikon.bsky.social wrote in 2020.
www.theindiaforum.in/article/toxi...
Resource extraction has been foundational to the logic of politics in Assam but has marginalised local communities. @dollykikon.bsky.social wrote in 2020.
www.theindiaforum.in/article/toxi...
-Jessica Nordell, The End of Bias
August 18, 2025 at 12:03 AM
-Jessica Nordell, The End of Bias
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This is so cool, and cool that it’s in Montgomery County too
In suburban Washington, D.C., on a tiny parcel of land abutting a Costco parking lot and housing developments, a couple is performing a radical rewilding.
New from Davin Faris:
ambrook.com/offrange/per...
New from Davin Faris:
ambrook.com/offrange/per...
The Time Traveler’s Garden - Offrange
A couple is resurrecting a long-lost native ecosystem, an island in the heart of a D.C. suburb.
ambrook.com
August 17, 2025 at 11:49 PM
This is so cool, and cool that it’s in Montgomery County too
just happened upon the perfect aesthetic
July 31, 2025 at 12:02 AM
just happened upon the perfect aesthetic
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1) "Women are Not a Voting Bloc" by my friend Cathy Wineinger shows that republican women were not swayed by 'moderate' outreach from the dem party. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Women Are Not a Voting Bloc: Why Democratic Appeals to White Republican Women Didn’t Widen the Gender Gap | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core
Women Are Not a Voting Bloc: Why Democratic Appeals to White Republican Women Didn’t Widen the Gender Gap - Volume 21 Issue 2
www.cambridge.org
July 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
1) "Women are Not a Voting Bloc" by my friend Cathy Wineinger shows that republican women were not swayed by 'moderate' outreach from the dem party. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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"Freed from the limitations of “realist” storytelling, speculative fiction can open up a plethora of ways in which to highlight anti-caste struggles."
Sreyartha Krishna reviews ‘The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF’:
Sreyartha Krishna reviews ‘The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF’:
The present and deep past of anti-caste speculative fiction
IN 1920, the Czech author Karel Čapek wrote a science fiction play called R.U.R. – short for Rossumovi Univerzalni Roboti, or Rossum’s Universal Robots. Credite
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July 19, 2025 at 4:49 AM
"Freed from the limitations of “realist” storytelling, speculative fiction can open up a plethora of ways in which to highlight anti-caste struggles."
Sreyartha Krishna reviews ‘The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF’:
Sreyartha Krishna reviews ‘The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF’:
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📚🎙️“The book is about our complicity in the success of these big technology companies. Then I started to realise that the book, in some ways, turned out to be complicit in the rise in power and wealth of these companies as well.”
@vauhinivara.bsky.social:
@vauhinivara.bsky.social:
Vauhini Vara on big tech and our digital selves: Southasia Review of Books podcast #27
Welcome to the Southasia Review of Books Podcast, where we speak to celebrated authors and emerging literary voices from across Southasia. In this episode, Shwe
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July 9, 2025 at 5:59 AM
📚🎙️“The book is about our complicity in the success of these big technology companies. Then I started to realise that the book, in some ways, turned out to be complicit in the rise in power and wealth of these companies as well.”
@vauhinivara.bsky.social:
@vauhinivara.bsky.social:
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the singular message of this ad is "zohran loves new york city" and it is incredibly effective
Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.
July 8, 2025 at 2:33 AM
the singular message of this ad is "zohran loves new york city" and it is incredibly effective
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$229,255, the annual income required to afford a median priced home in Boston area ($734,000) according to the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, assuming 3.5% down payment on a 30-year fixed rate loan with zero points and a 6.73% interest rate.
America.
America.
July 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
$229,255, the annual income required to afford a median priced home in Boston area ($734,000) according to the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, assuming 3.5% down payment on a 30-year fixed rate loan with zero points and a 6.73% interest rate.
America.
America.
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The United States has recorded its highest annual measles cases in 33 years. The milestone marks a public health reversal in defeating a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease as the anti-vaccine movement gains strength.
U.S. measles cases reach 33-year record high as outbreaks spread
Johns Hopkins University data reflects the public health reversal in defeating the vaccine-preventable disease since measles was officially eliminated from the U.S. in 2000.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The United States has recorded its highest annual measles cases in 33 years. The milestone marks a public health reversal in defeating a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease as the anti-vaccine movement gains strength.
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A reminder: FEMA is no longer going door-to-door to assist disaster victims
[From our Climate Desk partner @wired.com]
[From our Climate Desk partner @wired.com]
FEMA will no longer go door-to-door to assist disaster victims
The move, says one agency worker, will “severely hamper our ability to reach vulnerable people.”
www.motherjones.com
July 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A reminder: FEMA is no longer going door-to-door to assist disaster victims
[From our Climate Desk partner @wired.com]
[From our Climate Desk partner @wired.com]
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Over the moon to finally be reading @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social's "Is a River Alive?"
Feel like I've just sat down and already a hundred pages have disappeared. Temporarily tearing myself away so I can visit my own local river.
Feel like I've just sat down and already a hundred pages have disappeared. Temporarily tearing myself away so I can visit my own local river.
May 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Over the moon to finally be reading @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social's "Is a River Alive?"
Feel like I've just sat down and already a hundred pages have disappeared. Temporarily tearing myself away so I can visit my own local river.
Feel like I've just sat down and already a hundred pages have disappeared. Temporarily tearing myself away so I can visit my own local river.
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Is A River Alive? is published today, 1 May.
It’s about the lives, deaths & rights of rivers—& how our fate flows with that of water & always has.
To the people, places & rivers whose ideas run through its pages, thank you so much.
I think it’s the book I’ve been learning to write all these years.
It’s about the lives, deaths & rights of rivers—& how our fate flows with that of water & always has.
To the people, places & rivers whose ideas run through its pages, thank you so much.
I think it’s the book I’ve been learning to write all these years.
May 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Is A River Alive? is published today, 1 May.
It’s about the lives, deaths & rights of rivers—& how our fate flows with that of water & always has.
To the people, places & rivers whose ideas run through its pages, thank you so much.
I think it’s the book I’ve been learning to write all these years.
It’s about the lives, deaths & rights of rivers—& how our fate flows with that of water & always has.
To the people, places & rivers whose ideas run through its pages, thank you so much.
I think it’s the book I’ve been learning to write all these years.
a small and significant corner of the neighborhood
May 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
a small and significant corner of the neighborhood
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Asian grocery stores are a lifeline to the communities they serve. But store owners say the prospect of sweeping tariffs are threatening their ability to stock up on goods and keep prices affordable.
Asian grocery stores, a lifeline for immigrants, brace for steep new tariffs
Asian grocery stores are a lifeline to the communities they serve. But store owners say the prospect of sweeping tariffs are threatening their ability to stock up on goods and keep prices affordable.
www.npr.org
April 8, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Asian grocery stores are a lifeline to the communities they serve. But store owners say the prospect of sweeping tariffs are threatening their ability to stock up on goods and keep prices affordable.
in the neighborhood secret desires/confessions: “I’m trying really hard to not be a screenager :P”
April 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
in the neighborhood secret desires/confessions: “I’m trying really hard to not be a screenager :P”