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| With Trump pulling the US out of the Paris Agreement and freezing funding for climate research, halting the destruction of our ecosystems seems harder than ever. But what if we’re thinking about biodiversity all wrong? Well-intentioned attempts to save local species are consistently stalling the massive energy transition needed to prevent those species’ destruction, David Fickling writes. |
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| It’s easy to admire justice, whether for a native fish threatened by humans or a marginalized community threatened by those in power. In practice, justice is complicated. South Africa’s post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission has been held up as a model for countries wrestling with sectarian or racial divisions. But its failures left many South Africans indignant, writes Antony Sguazzin, and perpetuated an idea of the country as one in which crime goes unpunished. |
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| If clinging to an idea can warp our worldview, so too can the failure to cling to anything. The digitization of photos and ticket stubs may be convenient, but it thins the tether between these bits of ephemera and the memories they represent, writes Amanda Mull. Humans have spent millennia imbuing objects with abstract significance, which is a lost art when all our memories only exist in our phones. |
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A robot with cat ears and blue eyes glances from side to side as it glides across a Tokyo restaurant, searching for the customers who ordered strawberry parfaits. “Your order’s here,” the robot says, arriving at a table with a crisp 90-degree turn. “Meow!” Welcome to the workforce of the future in Japan, where the service industry is investing in robots to fill labor shortages in an aging population.  Photographer: Soichiro Koriyama/Bloomberg |
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In The Breach, Alan McPherson argues that the Iran-Contra scandal should be plotted not as a minor sideshow in the Cold War’s final act, but as a key moment in the collapse of democratic norms, one that foreshadows the current moment. -
In World Eaters, Catherine Bracy says venture capital’s focus on ‘blitzscaling’ produces four types of victims: VC firms, entrepreneurs ignored by them, limited partners and the rest of us. -
In Holding Government to Account, three academics use England’s 1866 Exchequer and Audit Departments Act, which created a proto-DOGE, to show the pitfalls of ignoring value for money spent.
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Keep an Eye On | | “For a lot of people, this shows the government is looking out for them. But for others, this reveals a kind of hidden reality — which is that someone is watching you.” | | Chuncheng Liu A sociologist who has researched state surveillance in China |
China is building a “firewall” against scammers, intercepting phone calls and text messages and conducting millions of in-person meetings to dissuade people from interacting with them. But the heavy-handed approach — police have even frozen people’s bank withdrawals — is also rattling some Chinese citizens. |
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