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    Today’s climate movement remains bedeviled by a pervasive sense of nihilism. To counter this way of thinking, Stokes encourages us to replace the concept of a carbon footprint with a new idea: the carbon wave. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-climate-cr…
    A black-and-white photo of climate protesters over the MIT Press Reader logo.

Headline: The Climate Crisis is Bigger Than Your Footprint

Subheading: The climate crisis won't be solved with lifestyle choices but through political pressure and bold collective action.

Credit line: Leah C. Stokes
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    From the X-Men and Dune to Dyson spheres and the multiverse, Olaf Stapledon’s speculative imagination had a huge impact on science fiction that followed. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-man-who-sa…
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    Aug 29
    "Our Earth is only one polka dot among a million stars in the cosmos. Polka dots are a way to infinity." Godspeed, Yayoi Kusama
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    Aug 29
    “There is a voice, infused with a distant sense of beauty and tragedy as it considers humanity in the abstract.” Matthew De Abaitua on Olaf Stapledon’s “Last and First Men”: thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-man-who-sa…
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    Aug 28
    Out now (and #openaccess!): "Conceptual Form: The Hidden Structure of Commonsense Concepts," a theory of the formal structure of commonsense concepts, by cognitive scientist Sandeep Prasada. mitpress.mit.edu/9780262053136/…