Tag: politics
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Politics must be reimagined to include more than mere human affairs. Noema Deputy Editor Nils Gilman recently interviewed Tobias Rees, who is the director of the Berggruen Institute’s Transformations of… more ›
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A future in which China is the world’s dominant scientific power fills the imagination of leaders in both East and West. China’s ability to realize these visions depends on its… more ›
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Kim Stanley Robinson is one of the great living science fiction writers and one of the most astute observers of how planets look, feel and work. We discuss why Robinson… more ›
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True randomness is a slippery thing: It is a property not of things in themselves, like individual numbers, but of their relationship to one another. One number is not random;… more ›
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Neom, the Saudi crown prince’s urban megaproject, is supposed to have a ski resort, swim lanes for commuters, and “smart” everything. It’s going great—for the consultants. The chosen site in… more ›
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USING carrots to create concrete, turning wood into plastic, or even compressing it into a “super wood” that is as light and strong as titanium might sound like a series… more ›
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Five years ago Project Drawdown published a collection of “drawdown solutions,” technologies and practices that, if ambitiously implemented together, can achieve drawdown—the point in the future when levels of greenhouse… more ›