FC101: We've Got Some Big News
Plus, Arctic code, a new CasΦ for the CRISPR family, bird tracks in the sky, and good news on population growth, military spending, wildlife bans in Vietnam and woodland cover in the United Kingdom.
The Pandemic Is Wreaking Havoc On Fossil Fuels
The coronavirus pandemic has set off the most devastating downturn in the industry’s 150-year history, one from which, ultimately, it may never recover.
FC100: Indistinguishable From Nature
Plus, ice craters on Mars, the best science fiction movie of the last three decades, and good news on funding for the WHO, prison rates in the US, and conservation in Pakistan.
FC99: The Culture Wars Cavalry
Plus, Mayan ruins, the passion economy, and good news on global funding for vaccines, human rights in Gabon, and tree planting (again!) in Ethiopia.
FC98: Talk Is Cheap
Plus, The Narrow Waist Of The Internet, Thomas Friedman is the worst (so are brains), and good news on FGM in Sudan, traffic deaths in the US and coal power in the UK.
FC97: Mr Electrico
Plus, hot qubits, magic mushrooms, Nicolas Jaar, and good news on coal financing in Japan, a Green New Deal in South Korea, and white-tailed eagles in Britain.
Portal Economics
COVID-19 offers us an escape from a much bigger mess, but only if we're brave enough to try it.
The Bio-Political Straitjacket
How the pandemic exposes the limits of our economic and political imaginations.
FC96: Ignore The Productivity Pressure
Plus, the world's largest distributed supercomputer, the best business advice we've been given, and a tonne of good news from the frontlines of the global effort to beat COVID-19.
FC95: We Are Waves Of The Same Sea
Plus, a library for press freedom in Minecraft, and good news on coal in South Korea, women's rights in Pakistan, and conservation in Afghanistan.
FC94: Information Wants To Be Free
Plus, ground penetrating radar, Blade Runner greenhouses, lab-grown breastmilk, good news on clean energy in Turkey, foster care in the US and blue whale populations off South Georgia.
FC93: Superfluous Sacks of Meat
Plus, legendary astronauts, dead children in VR, genetically engineered moths and good news on EU emissions, foster care in the US, and rhino poaching in South Africa.
FC92: A Decade of Vaccines
Plus, Kanye's Sunday Service, heartprints, AR contact lenses, the "Bohemian Rhapsody" of T-cells, and good news on Chinese birth rates, global fisheries and solar in Vietnam.
FC91: A Nation On Fire
Plus, holographic popstars, cobra genomes, Blade Runner samples and good news on cholera, landmines and child marriage.
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If we want to change the story of the human race in the 21st century, we have to change the stories we tell ourselves.