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Psychedelics Are Challenging the Scientific Gold Standard ( www.theatlantic.com )

What Tom Suozzi’s Win Means for Democrats: His special-election victory offers his party a road map for rebutting Republicans on immigration this fall ( www.theatlantic.com )

Tom Suozzi’s victory in yesterday’s special House election on Long Island brings Democrats one seat closer to recapturing the majority they lost two years ago. But in the run-up to Election Day, party leaders were leery about making too much of the closely watched contest—win or lose....

A Wild Plan to Avert Catastrophic Sea-Level Rise | The collapse of Antarctica’s ice sheets would be disastrous. A group of scientists has an idea to save them. ( www.theatlantic.com )

I'll note that this falls into the realm of highly-uncertain efforts with a significant chance of failure. It shouldn't be considered as an alternative to ending fossil fuel use, but at most, something to reduce the harm we've already caused.

How First Contact With Whale Civilization Could Unfold ( www.theatlantic.com )

The Next Front in the War Against Climate Change | Clean-energy investment in America is off the charts—but it still isn’t translating into enough electricity that people can actually use. ( www.theatlantic.com )

TIL; in the US state of Georgia Immigrants are ok, as long as they can be exploited by business owners. ( www.theatlantic.com )

Georgia prevents immigrants, causing millions of dollars of crops to rot. changes course to allow immigrants. still against immigration somehow.

OpenAI Just Gave Away the Entire Game ( www.theatlantic.com )

Fruit Chaos Is Coming | Climate change is threatening to turn sublime summer stone fruits disgusting, or rob us of their pleasures entirely. ( www.theatlantic.com )

Why Americans Suddenly Stopped Hanging Out - Too much aloneness is creating a crisis of social fitness. ( www.theatlantic.com )

Horizon is The Biggest Gamble of Kevin Costner’s Career ( www.theatlantic.com )

There’s Only One Way to Fix Air Pollution Now | Clean-air rules just can't keep up with climate change. ( www.theatlantic.com )

Prepare for a ‘Gray Swan’ Climate ( www.theatlantic.com )

Archive : https://archive.ph/rslux

The Ugly History of Dual-Loyalty Charges - Ilhan Omar recently deployed an accusation that’s been used against religious minorities for years. ( www.theatlantic.com )

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16414235...

A 600-Year-Old Blueprint for Weathering Climate Change ( www.theatlantic.com )

During the Little Ice Age, Native North Americans devised whole new economic, social, and political structures.

The Moral Case Against Equity Language ( www.theatlantic.com )

The words [Equity-language] guides recommend or reject are sometimes exactly the same, justified in nearly identical language....

Playing God With the Atmosphere ( www.theatlantic.com )

What Ecstasy Does to Octopuses ( www.theatlantic.com )

Universities Have a Computer-Science Problem ( www.theatlantic.com )

Without paywall: https://archive.ph/Vf47N

It’s Not the Economy. It’s the Pandemic. ( www.theatlantic.com )

Winners of the British Wildlife Photography Awards 2024 ( www.theatlantic.com )

Organizers of the 2024 British Wildlife Photography Awards just announced their collection of winners and runners-up. More than 14,000 images were submitted in 11 different categories, celebrating the wildlife and wild spaces found across the United Kingdom. Competition organizers were kind enough to share some of this year’s...