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  • | Dio Cramer | MR Online

    Extractivism in the Anthropocene

    Originally published: Science for the People on Volume 25, no. 2, Bleeding Earth (more by Science for the People)  |

    Late Imperialism and the Expropriation of the Earth.

  • | Image credit Leslee Lazar | MR Online

    Fossil Drugs: Antibiotics as the fossil fuels of medicine

    Originally published: Science for the People on Autumn 2022 by Liam Shaw (Volume 25, no. 2) (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Nov 17, 2022)

    Though now one of the most famous and ubiquitous antibiotics, penicillin was once so scarce that doctors had to recycle it from their patients’ urine for reinjection. But once mass production was possible, such restraint ended. Today, antibiotic use is astonishingly inefficient.

  • | Intake pipe for Greenidge power plant on Seneca Lake New York Photo by Abi Buddington | MR Online

    Boom and bust: The fight over Bitcoin mining in New York State

    Originally published: Science for the People on Volume 25, no. 2, Bleeding Earth by Owen Marshall (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Nov 03, 2022)

    Seneca Lake’s picturesque setting belies its long history of conquest and extraction.

  • | Alexandra Lobo | MR Online

    Vehicles of Extraction

    Originally published: Science for the People on Volume 25, no. 2, Bleeding Earth by Paris Marx (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Oct 16, 2022)

    After years of false starts, the electric vehicle (EV) finally seems to be picking up steam. Last year, the Biden administration announced ambitious targets to increase the adoption of EVs, along with funding for a number of measures aimed at making them more attractive to Americans. By 2030, the president wants half of all new vehicle sales to be electric. To encourage that, the government is providing financial incentives for drivers to buy them, installing new charging stations across the country, helping build the supply chain, and extending support to retool the factories that are manufacturing these supposed cars of the future.1 It’s a comprehensive plan for a large-scale effort, and industry seems to be on board.

  • | Susie Ang | MR Online

    Letter from the Editors – SftP

    Originally published: Science for the People on Volume 25, no. 2, Bleeding Earth by Science for the People Editors (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Oct 14, 2022)

    Metabolic processes are ubiquitous in nature: water in the soil, in rivers and lakes, and as rain; carbon in the atmosphere anabolized in living organisms, deposited in the ground, and oxidized into the air.

  • | Modified from SftP Volume 6 no 4 July 1974 | MR Online

    The failed serotonin theory of depression: A Marxist analysis

    Originally published: Science for the People on September 9, 2022 by Carlos L. Garrido (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Sep 17, 2022)

    A recent study published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry sent shockwaves across the scientific community and popular outlets as it disproved the predominant “serotonin hypothesis” of depression.

  • | Artwork by Dan Nott | MR Online

    Debt and the transition to regenerative agriculture

    Originally published: Science for the People on Volume 25, no. 1, The Soil and the Worker by Isaac Bissell (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Aug 23, 2022)

    I grew up in a small town in Vermont, and like many I learned to love the smell of fresh cow manure being spread on fields in the spring.

  • | Biology at Another Crossroads | MR Online

    Biology at another crossroads

    Originally published: Science for the People on July 18, 2022 by Nafis Hasan (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Jul 25, 2022)

    Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin’s publication of The Dialectical Biologist in 1985 provided a gestalt moment which remains just as valid and applicable decades after the book’s publication, if not even more so.

  • | Tye Zapatistas | MR Online

    The perennial seeds of Zapata

    Originally published: Science for the People on Volume 25, no. 1, The Soil and the Worker by Simon P. Tye and Eric R. Hagen (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Jul 08, 2022)

    Under the banner of Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata, their movement has maintained territorial control for over twenty-eight years without official recognition by the Mexican government beyond the failed San Andrés Accord.

  • | By Sophie Standing | MR Online

    Contributions of peasant farmer communities: The case of Venezuela

    Originally published: Science for the People on Volume 25, no. 1, 'The Soil and the Worker' by Miguel Ángel Núñez (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Jun 16, 2022)

    Throughout their history, agricultural, chemical and food corporations have created and implemented tactics to marginalize the peasant farmer community and indigenous people.

  • | Racism Not Race | MR Online

    What race is and isn’t – excerpts from ‘Racism, Not Race’

    Originally published: Science for the People on March 28, 2022 by Joseph L. Graves, Jr. and Alan H. Goodman (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Mar 30, 2022)

    Most people who are fighting against racism are doing so with their metaphorical hands tied behind their backs because they are not clear about what race is and what it is not.

  • | Ant | MR Online

    “The Last Refuge of Scoundrels”

    Originally published: Science for the People on February 1, 2022 by Stacy Farina and Matthew Gibbons (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Feb 11, 2022)

    New Evidence of E. O. Wilson’s Intimacy with Scientific Racism

  • | Art by Alice Mao | MR Online

    Opening this article voids warranty

    Originally published: Science for the People on Volume 24, number 2, Don’t Be Evil by Harun Šiljak (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Nov 16, 2021)

    Repair, as an act of reclaiming technology, is ongoing in the Global North and South with complementary driving forces and problems.

  • | Art by Calvin Wu | MR Online

    Richard Lewontin, dialectical materialism, the relationship between evolutionary biology and Marxism

    Originally published: Science for the People on November 3, 2021 by Erik Svensson (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Nov 04, 2021)

    Dialectical materialism combines two philosophical traditions: historical materialism formulated by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and dialectics, an idealist philosophy formulated by German philosopher Georg Willhelm Friedrich Hegel.

  • | Art by Jordan Collver | MR Online

    ‘Marx in Soho’: An Epilogue

    Originally published: Science for the People on Volume 24, Number 2, Don’t Be Evil by Calvin Wu (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Oct 18, 2021)

    In 1999, Howard Zinn published the sensation ‘Marx in Soho: A Play on History’. The story began with Karl Marx petitioning Heaven to come back to Earth for a short while so that he could “clear his name.”

  • | Biology as Ideology The Doctrine of DNA Richard C Lewontin Harper Perennial 1993 144 Pages $1299 | MR Online

    Biology as Ideology at 30

    Originally published: Science for the People on August 8, 2021 by Kulyash Zhumadilova - Lewontin Memorial Collection (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Aug 31, 2021)

    ‘The increased atomization of society and associated political economy of capitalism justifies the logic of reductionism’. – Richard Lewontin

  • | Not in Our Genes | MR Online

    Under the influence of Lewontin: Volume Two

    Originally published: Science for the People on August 3, 2021 by Steven Rose, Michael Harris, David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Aug 28, 2021)

    Friends and colleagues of Dick Lewontin are sharing their stories and reflections.

  • | Richard Lewontin | MR Online

    Richard Lewontin: Race science for the people

    Originally published: Science for the People on August 8, 2021 by Joseph L. Graves Jr. - Lewontin Memorial Collection (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Aug 24, 2021)

    We can now say with great confidence that our species, anatomically modern humans, does not have biological races. We know this in large part due to the contributions of Richard C. Lewontin.

  • | Dust Bowls of Empire Imperialism Environmental Politics and the Injustice of Green Capitalism | MR Online

    The Colonial Rift

    Originally published: Science for the People on July 2021 by Brandon Burkey & Lydia Patton (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Jul 24, 2021)

    A Review of Hannah Holleman’s ‘Dust Bowls of Empire: Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of “Green” Capitalism’.

  • | D D Kosambi and W E B Du Bois | MR Online

    The revolutionary science of W. E. B. Du Bois and D. D. Kosambi

    Originally published: Science for the People on July 2, 2021 - Volume 24, Number 1, Racial Capitalism by Archishman Raju (more by Science for the People)  | (Posted Jul 08, 2021)

    Du Bois, trained in history and sociology, was the first to conduct a scientific study on race in American society. Kosambi was trained in mathematics but was the first to scientifically investigate ancient Indian history.

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