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Monsters and other strange creatures
Fairly recently, a subreddit called TrueCryptozoology was recommended to me by Reddit. I immediately joined. Back when I was a kiddo I loved cryptozoology. But, “what even is cryptozoology”, I hear you ponder. Well, it has nothing to do with mining bitcoins in the zoo and everything to do with so-called cryptids — creatures whose…
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Science’s New Battle Plan: 36 Strategies to Defeat Climate Change
The paper, “Democratizing climate change mitigation pathways using modernized stabilization wedges” by Nathan Johnson and Iain Staffell, argues that climate models are powerful scientific tools, but very often way too complex for ordinary people, journalists, and policymakers. As you can see from the carefully chosen title of the paper, scientists basically admitted that climate change…