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The Anti-Capitalist Case for Standards

science

tech

This is an interesting read from the MIT Press Reader: The Anti-Capitalist Case for Standards. Things like this can sometimes seem self-evident, but it’s important to point…

Ancient DNA

science

tech

I was captivated last night when I came across this Nova documentary about the search for environmental DNA and the methods that allowed sequencing of fragments as old as…

The Tricontinental

democracy

policy

The Tricontinental Institute for Social Research describes itself as “an international institute guided by popular movements and organisations [which seeks] to build a…

Project CETI

science

tech

AI

cetaceans

Did you know that there’s a big multidisciplinary project under way to try to decipher the communications of whales using machine learning? What a fascinating effort.

The Participatory Budgeting Project

policy

democracy

Participatory budgeting is one way that we can deepen democracy through the budgeting process.