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  •  | Bletchley Declaration on AI | MR Online

    AI is bad for the environment, and the problem is bigger than energy consumption

    Originally published: The Conversation on January 29, 2025 by Hamish van der Ven (more by The Conversation)  | (Posted Feb 05, 2025)

    The collective energy demand of data centres in the United States is so high that Microsoft recently reached a deal to reopen Three Mile Island, the site of the worst nuclear accident in American history.

  •  | 10000 homeless as Israel destroyed 2000 homes in central Gaza | MR Online

    Friday essay: ‘A future of dust’ – Jeff Sparrow on Gaza and why, in evil times, writers have a responsibility to take sides

    Originally published: The Conversation on December 5, 2024 by Jeff Sparrow (more by The Conversation)  | (Posted Dec 09, 2024)

    “We must ask for no references to Gaza/Palestine/Israel as it’s a very sensitive topic in our area. If these topics are included it drastically changes our risk management plans for events. Thus for safety and harmony we kindly ask the guest speakers avoid these topics and any questions about it that come up.” – Sam Wallman and I received this message from our publicist, one day before an event at a suburban library about our coauthored book.

  •  | AMOC | MR Online

    Meltwater from Greenland and the Arctic is weakening ocean circulation, speeding up warming down south

    Originally published: The Conversation on November 18, 2024 by Laurie Menviel, Gabriel Pontes (more by The Conversation)  | (Posted Nov 21, 2024)

    A vast network of ocean currents nicknamed the “great global ocean conveyor belt” is slowing down.

  •  | Ten Commandments on government property | MR Online

    An American flag, a pencil sharpener−and the 10 Commandments: Louisiana’s law to mandate biblical displays in classrooms is the latest to push limits of religion in public schools

    Originally published: The Conversation on June 4, 2024 by Charles J. Russo (more by The Conversation)  | (Posted Jun 22, 2024)

    Louisiana is not a stranger to controversy over religion in schools.

  •  | Extreme heat impacts and consequences | MR Online

    Heat index warnings can save lives on dangerously hot days−if people understand what they mean

    Originally published: The Conversation on June 5, 2024 by Micki Olson (more by The Conversation)  | (Posted Jun 11, 2024)

    You’ve probably heard people say, “It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.” There’s a lot of truth to that phrase, and it’s important to understand it as summer temperatures rise.

  •  | The magus of Messkirch Martin Heidegger   Philosophers for Change | MR Online

    Heidegger in ruins? Grappling with an anti-semitic philosopher and his troubling rebirth today

    Originally published: The Conversation on April 11, 2023 by Matthew Sharpe (more by The Conversation)  | (Posted Apr 18, 2023)

    The story of German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) and his posthumous reception almost reads like the plot of an airport spy thriller.

  •  | A car is partially submerged after heavy rains in Chennai India 12 November 2021 | MR Online

    IPCC’s conservative nature masks true scale of action needed to avert catastrophic climate change

    Originally published: The Conversation on March 24, 2023 by Kevin Anderson (more by The Conversation)  | (Posted Apr 03, 2023)

    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) synthesis report recently landed with an authoritative thump, giving voice to hundreds of scientists endeavouring to understand the unfolding calamity of global heating.

  •  | A fast flowing outlet glacier calves a megaberg into Greenlands Uummannaq Fjord Alun Hubbard | MR Online

    What’s going on with the Greenland ice sheet? It’s losing ice faster than forecast and now irreversibly committed to at least 10 inches of sea level rise

    Originally published: The Conversation on August 29, 2022 by Alun Hubbard (more by The Conversation)  | (Posted Sep 03, 2022)

    Alun Hubbard: “As a field glaciologist, I’ve worked on ice sheets for more than 30 years. In that time, I have witnessed some gobsmacking changes.”

  •  | Builders construct experimental vaults of brick and cement blocks in Santiago de Cuba in December 1960 Centro de Documentación Empresa RESTAURA Oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad de La Habana CC BY ND | MR Online

    Cuba’s post-revolution architecture offers a blueprint for how to build more with less

    Originally published: The Conversation on November 19, 2021 by M. Wesam Al Asali (more by The Conversation)  | (Posted Aug 29, 2022)

    Around the world, there’s a conjoined crisis of climate change and housing shortages—two topics at the top of the list of discussions in the recent COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.

  •  | Dancers perform during the presidential inauguration ceremony at Heroes Square on November 29 2021 in Bridgetown Barbados | MR Online

    It’s all in the flag: Bussa’s Rebellion and the 200-year fight to end British rule in Barbados

    Originally published: The Conversation on December 6, 2021 by Lewis Eliot (more by The Conversation)  | (Posted Dec 18, 2021)

    Prince Charles, as a representative of Queen Elizabeth II, was in attendance, providing a royal seal of approval. Barbados gained its independence in 1966, though the new nation kept ties to its former overlords by keeping Elizabeth II as a symbolic head of state.

  •  | Transitioning is possible after going through puberty but its much more difficult for trans people to look the way they want to look Elena MedvedevaGetty Images | MR Online

    Two classes of trans kids are emerging–those who have access to puberty blockers, and those who don’t

    Originally published: The Conversation on May 4, 2021 by Travers (more by The Conversation)  | (Posted May 07, 2021)

    For decades, kids who didn’t conform to the gender expected of them were forced to endure treatments designed to “cure” their gender nonconformity. This form of therapy, called “reparative” or “corrective,” typically involved instructing parents–and sometimes teachers–to subject children to constant surveillance and correction.

  •  | Thijs StoopUnsplash FAL | MR Online

    Climate scientists: concept of net zero is a dangerous trap

    Originally published: The Conversation on April 22, 2021 by James Dyke, Robert Watson and Wolfgang Knorr (more by The Conversation)  | (Posted Apr 27, 2021)

    Sometimes realization comes in a blinding flash. Blurred outlines snap into shape and suddenly it all makes sense. Underneath such revelations is typically a much slower-dawning process. Doubts at the back of the mind grow.

  •  | The Office of Military Commissions building in Guantanamo Bay Cuba was where much legal activity about the detainees cases was handled AP PhotoAlex Brandon | MR Online

    ‘The Mauritanian’ rekindles debate over Gitmo detainees’ torture–with 40 still held there

    Originally published: The Conversation on February 12, 2021 (more by The Conversation)  |

    “The Mauritanian,” directed by Kevin Macdonald, is the first feature film to dramatize how the war on terror became a war in court.

  •  | John ONolanUnsplash FAL | MR Online

    Nobel prize-winning economics of climate change is misleading and dangerous – here’s why

    Originally published: The Conversation on September 9, 2020 by Steve Keen (more by The Conversation)  | (Posted Sep 10, 2020)

    While climate scientists warn that climate change could be catastrophic, economists such as 2018 Nobel prize winner William Nordhaus assert that it will be nowhere near as damaging.

  •  | The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle Stephen BrashearEPA | MR Online

    Revolutionary ideals of the Paris Commune live on in Black Lives Matter autonomous zone in Seattle

    Originally published: The Conversation on June 15, 2020 by Oli Mould (more by The Conversation)  | (Posted Jun 18, 2020)

    The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle–or Chaz as it has come to be known–was set up on June 8 in the Capitol Hill area of Seattle. It came about as a result of BLM protesters moving in after the Seattle police abandoned the precinct due to clashes with protesters.

  •  | Californians wait in line to vote on Super Tuesday March 3 2020 AP PhotoRingo HW Chiu | MR Online

    Closing polling places is the 21st century’s version of a poll tax

    Originally published: The Conversation on March 16, 2020 by Joshua F.J. Inwood and Derek H. Alderman (more by The Conversation)  | (Posted Mar 19, 2020)

    Delays and long lines at polling places during recent presidential primary elections – such as voters in Texas experienced – represent the latest version of decades-long policies that have sought to reduce the political power of African Americans in the U.S.

  •  | How getting rid of shit jobs and the metric of productivity can combat climate change | MR Online

    How getting rid of ‘shit jobs’ and the metric of productivity can combat climate change

    Originally published: The Conversation on September 18, 2019 by Simon Mair (more by The Conversation)  | (Posted Jan 14, 2020)

    Yes, we’ll be less efficient. But we’ll be happier, more useful and better able to tackle climate change.

  •  | Gazi Islam Author provided | MR Online

    Oxford-style debate: Ethno-nationalism and systemic crisis are symptoms of the present

    Originally published: The Conversation on October 18, 2018 by Gazi Islam (more by The Conversation)  | (Posted Nov 12, 2018)

    In his 1999 book The Bridge over the Racial Divide, William Julius Wilson wrote that economic insecurity creates conditions that hollow out the civic values of liberal democracy, and constitutes the “breeding grounds for racial and ethnic tensions”.

  •  | Green Marx Montecruz FotoFlickr CC BY SA | MR Online

    What Karl Marx has to say about today’s environmental problems

    Originally published: The Conversation on June 5, 2018 (more by The Conversation)  |

    Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and an economic shift in China it seemed that capitalism had become the only game in town. Karl Marx’s ideas could safely be relegated to the dustbin of history. However the global financial crash of 2008 and its aftermath sent many rushing back to the bin.

  •  | K Marx | MR Online

    Karl Marx at 200: why the workers’ way of knowing still matters

    Originally published: The Conversation on May 4, 2018 by Nigel Gibson (more by The Conversation)  | (Posted May 05, 2018)

    Thinking of the relevance of Karl Marx on the 200th anniversary of his birth on 5 May 1818, takes me back to a wonderful picture of him in Algeria. It was taken in his final year in 1882. Underneath the full white beard is that familiar glint in his eye. He is up to something.

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    Over 10,000 people died in transit to Spain in 2024 alone.[1] On June 2022, the border fence of Melilla, one of two Spanish enclaves in Morocco, was witness to a massacre that killed or disappeared over a hundred African migrants.[2]  A recent BBC investigation revealed that Greek border guards systematically repeal immigrants already on Greek […]

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