29 June 2024 (The Juice Media) – The Government™ has made an ad about the existential threat that AI poses to humanity, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative. […] “So we don’t need to worry about AI harming humans?” “Oh no, you do. See, the killer-robots aren’t just to distract from BigTechbro billionaires gaining even […]
By Kevin Crowley 2 December 2019 (Bloomberg) – At EOG Resources Inc.’s Francisco lease in the heart of the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas, a half dozen cows laze in the shade of a tree next to black oil-storage tanks. A small flare burns atop a steel pylon, like a memorial to the boom […]
By Jake Halpern 21 August 2019 (The New York Times Magazine) – Adrian Paisley spends his days hunting for scrap metal: aluminum, brass and (holy of holies) copper. At 42, Paisley, who weighs just 135 pounds, is wiry and muscular. I once saw him move an old refrigerator by himself, hurling it onto his pickup […]
5 June 2019 (NHM) – A letter authored by Natural History Museum Head of Earth Sciences Prof Richard Herrington and fellow expert members of SoS MinErals (an interdisciplinary programme of NERC-EPSRC-Newton-FAPESP funded research) has today been delivered to the Committee on Climate Change. The letter explains that to meet UK electric car targets for 2050 […]
