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Dads today are spending dramatically more time with their kids than they did a generation ago. But there’s a less encouraging trend tucked into this development.
Read article →Africa’s ‘coup belt’ has seen rising anti-Western sentiment.
Read article →An environmental engineer who mapped microplastic pollution in three of Pennsylvania’s watersheds explains what it means for our health.
Read article →Enslaved people were not just enslaved physically, but mentally as well. as widespread laws in the South barred enslaved people from receiving an education.
Read article →Electric utilities don’t make money from selling power to customers, but instead profit from investments in power plants, wires, substations and other equipment.
Read article →An observatory director describes the differences between the types of rocks that fly through space.
Read article →The rapidly growing popularity of prediction markets is sparking worries about the markets’ effects on US politics, where campaign staff has bet on its candidate’s electoral performance.
Read article →A data center could get more solar power and be kept much colder in space, but it would be extremely difficult to repair and update.
Read article →Not natural, not quite unnatural, the strange new rocks of the Anthropocene stretch the boundaries of geology- by John MacDonaldRead on Aeon
Read article →So far, about 10% of the ocean has formal protection as countries work toward the 30x30 goal, but many areas are still protected on paper only.
Read article →Iran has emerged with its uranium enrichment knowledge intact, its stockpile buried and fresh reason to believe that only a nuclear weapon would have deterred the US-Israel attack.
Read article →As a new father, a scholar used his research on absentee fatherhood to reimagine his own childhood without his dad.
Read article →The household is a community, as much as the state, and ancient philosophy had much more to say about it than we think- by Sandrine BergèsRead on Aeon
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