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I grew up in northern Ontario and one of the things I took for granted, which now astounds me, is distance. It's 242km from Kirkland Lake (my hometown) to North
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Denmark has the same population as Massachusetts yet it is the world leader in wind energy, an enormous and rapidly growing source of the world's power. Why? Because Denmark's policymakers
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The pandemic should have alerted us to the fact we may be blind to potentially catastrophic risks that can be foreseen and prevented. So where are the determined efforts to
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1/ Want to understand a big reason why so many governments are responding so poorly to the pandemic? Here's a question from the Cognitive Reflection Test: 2/ "In a lake,
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If I had to show just one exhibit to make the case that we are the luckiest people who ever lived -- yes, even in this dismal moment -- it
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A thread about why you should always check to see who is funding the podcasts, tweets, and other media you consume. Even the apparently apolitical stuff. 1/ There’s a podcast/twitter
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Please, citizens of Twitter, stop rewarding hand-wavy blowhards who write 37-part threads that Explain Everything. Yes, they hate who you hate and they replace uncertainty with certainty. Yes, they make
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Person Googles name, reads Wikipedia entry, is shocked to discover that people in the past thought differently, demands immediate change. The irony is that it was just such temporal myopia
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