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Learning from History: Preventing AGI Existential Risks through Policy
How can technological development policy work to curb AI risk? What does the race between safety and technological development look like? How have we…
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Cyrus the Great
A standout leader among Mesopotamian monsters
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February 2023
Burying the Lead
Understanding heavy metal exposure today and in ancient Rome.
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December 2022
Proto Pumps and Early Water Infrastructure
A survey exploring the different ways humanity has channeled the essential resource of water for thousands of years
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October 2022
Fungus Alert: World Health Organization releases fungal priority pathogens list
Alarm bells sound on emerging fungal threats
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Longtermism v.s. veganism: Pick one.
Why you should (maybe?) eat animals to save the world.
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Fungal Hunters
A class of carnivorous fungi lurks in the dirt. Will you be their next victim?
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August 2022
Agriculture: Man's Manipulation or Evolutionary Emergence?
Some agricultural Ant-ropology
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Building on reclaimed land
How soil settlement and subsidence may affect our ability to capitalize on reclaimed land.
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July 2022
Wonders of Our World #4: The Delta and Zuiderzee Works
Taking a moment to appreciate the worlds largest ever hydraulic engineering project
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June 2022
A deep dive on dirt
(and how it's actually quite complicated)
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Wonders of our World #5: The TSMC
How the infrastructure of a single company is essential to modern life.
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