Phuks!

2

Bucking convention to track the upside of invasive species (undark.org)

posted by smallpond on Conservation

6

It was unnecessary, he argues, for Bertrand Russell and Alfred Whitehead to write 378 pages of logic in their “Principia Mathematica” in order to prove 1+1=2 — when empirically it’s obvious. To Raju, this and much of formal math is “metaphysical junk,” an (undark.org)

posted by Kannibal on FoodForThought

4

In Australia's Snowy Mountains, a Battle Over Brumbies (undark.org)

posted by Kannibal on News

4

Before the emergence of Warcraft, and the PlayStation, Pavel Curtis created LambdaMOO. Players _used text_, not images, and imaginations ran wild. (undark.org)

posted by Kannibal on Technology

5

A Major Alcohol Study Was Compromised. How Many Others Are Out There? (undark.org)

posted by Kannibal on Science

6

Amid High-Tech Alternatives, a Reckoning for Iceland's Glacier Keepers Citizen scientists have served as glacier trackers in Iceland — and witnesses to the ravages of climate change — for generations (undark.org)

posted by Kannibal on Science

4

How a Failed Soviet A-Bomb Test Led the U.S. Into Climate Science (undark.org)

posted by xyzzy on Radioactive