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• Yong: The Inevitable Evolution of Bad Science

  A simulation shows how the incentives of modern academia naturally select for weaker and less reliable results
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  Street: Homo Sapiens in the Exterminist Age of Capital

  The project of building a united, militant, revolutionary, organized, durable, environmentalist, powerful, antimilitarist, and global Left is now an urgent life or death matter for many of us and for future generations
• Dolack: Killing ourselves with technology

  What do we do when technology spirals out of our...
• Horgan: Dear “Skeptics,” Bash Homeopathy and Bigfoot Less, Mammograms and War More

  A science journalist takes a skeptical look at capital-S Skepticism
• Godrej: Technology as if people mattered

  If you thought technology was politically neutral, think again
• Edwards: The Water Next Time

  Professor Who Helped Expose Crisis in Flint Says Public Science Is Broken
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  Podur: Vaccinations and the War on Science

  Donald Trump's championing of the "anti-vaxer" cause takes advantage of scientific illiteracy
• Oxenham: Feynman’s Advice

  If someone cannot explain something in plain English, then we should question whether they really do themselves understand what they profess
• Chandler: The More Robots We Bring into Society, the More We’re Forced to Behave Like Them

  Because of this increased tendency toward repetition and inflexibility, the AI or robot assistant will make its "master" more repetitive and inflexible
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  Hoodbhoy: Jinns invade campuses

  Last week, a workshop titled ‘Jinns and Black Magic’ was...
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  Monbiot: Human Kind

  We’re not as selfish as we think we are. Here’s the proof
• Jabbar: The Young Iraqis Promoting Darwinism and Rationalism To Save Iraq

  One of the more unusual, grass roots groups in Iraq...
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  Emanuele: Technology, Weapons and the Future

  Until students control the universities, workers control corporations and the state is managed by working-class and poor citizens, regular folks will have little to say about why, how in what ways these technologies are implemented
• Timmer: Climate denial is everywhere

  The recent elections returned Republicans to control of the Senate, which means all the committees within the chamber will see their leadership change
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  Shiva: Seeds of Truth: Vandana Shiva and the New Yorker

  A response to the article ‘Seeds of Doubt’ by Michael Specter in The New Yorker
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  Monbiot: Why whale poo matters

  Not only does nutrient-rich whale poo help reverse the effects of climate change – it’s a remarkable example that nothing in the natural world occurs in isolation
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  Fitz: GMO Contamination Denial: Controlling Science

  Three well-known GMO studies form a pattern of authors' being harassed, intimidated and even having their findings "retracted" or withdrawn by a scientific journal after being published
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  Albert: Science and the Left 4: Bad Technology

  The critical change will be in how we determine what technologies are worth pursuing and implementing
• Phillips: The Solution is Democracy

  Democracy isn’t a barrier to solving global issues like climate change. It’s humanity’s best hope
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  Albert: Science and the Left 3: Good Science

  How would science be different under a different economic system?