Yearly Archives: 2023
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The good news is that the Anthropocene is almost over. It may have been the shortest geological epoch in all of Earth history. The bad news is that the Catastrophocene is just beginning.
The good news...
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A revolution has been underway for several decades, transforming materials engineering from costly and time-consuming process of trial-and-error experimental “materials by discovery” to “intelligent...
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The Earth system is marked by a complex interaction of a lot of different processes, many of which are very involved and we can only explore them indirectly. Take the water cycle as an example. Water...
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This book grew out of two entwined questions. One has followed me throughout my academic career: what are the origins and nature of modern liberal society? The other came into view more clearly...
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“I know a person when I talk to it.” With these words Google engineer Blake Lemoine made headlines in June 2022, thinking that a Google chatbot had become sentient. Google did not appreciate these...
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I get this question a lot—usually just after I tell people that I’ve written a book on sarcasm in the Bible. So, to answer this question for all time: yes, there is sarcasm in the Bible. If there...
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“Life as a Bilingual” – a highly successful blog and now a new Cambridge book
Back in 2016, Cambridge Extra published an interview[1] of François Grosjean[2], a recognized expert...
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Today’s media increasingly serves us clickbait climate histories. Headlines prompt us to read how the city-states of the Maya collapsed because of drought, how massive empires like that of the Neo-Assyrians...
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The good news is that the Anthropocene is almost over. It may have been the shortest...
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A revolution has been underway for several decades, transforming materials engineering...
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The Earth system is marked by a complex interaction of a lot of different processes,...
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This book grew out of two entwined questions. One has followed me throughout...
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“I know a person when I talk to it.” With these words Google engineer Blake...
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I get this question a lot—usually just after I tell people that I’ve written...
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“Life as a Bilingual” – a highly successful blog and now a new...
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Today’s media increasingly serves us clickbait climate histories. Headlines prompt...
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