Nuclear and Environment
Saeed Kamali Dehghan, “Iranian Parliament Passes Bill Approving Nuclear Deal.”
McKenzie Wark, “The Capitalocene.”
Trevor Paglen, Trinity Cube.
Drones
Atomurbia and Other Links
Environment
Bill McKibben, “Climate: Will We Lose the Endgame?”
Paul Krugman, “The Big Green Test: Conservatives and Climate Change.”
Science
What I’ve been speculating about for years now: physicists are saying consciousness is a state of matter.
The Hubble has seen a star eat another star.
Economics
Benjamin Kunkel’s long review of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
Notes from the Anthropocene: Insuring the Apocalypse and Other Links
Nuclear
More adventures in nuclear incompetence: Lily Hay Newman, “Air Force Security Failed a Takeover Drill at a Nuclear Silo.”
Climate Change, Catastrophe, and the Anthropocene
We’re doomed. “A Galaxy Far, Far Away . . . Will Hit Ours.”
Lindsay Abrams, “Researchers: The Collapse of Greenland’s Ice Sheet Could Be a Bigger Disaster Than We Thought.”
Ari Phillips, “In Landmark Class Action, Farmers Insurance Sues Local Government for Ignoring Climate Change.” Is that what we need? For the insurance companies to get involved?
Yes. McKenzie Funk, “Insuring the Apocalypse.”
Paul Krugman, “Cutting Back on Carbon.”
On the flooding in the Balkans.
Everything is the worst: Ryan Koronowski, “House Votes to Deny Climate Science and Ties Pentagon’s Hands on Climate Change.”
More End of Spring Semester 2014 Links
So because the semester is still winding down and I’m finding new oodles of time to post stuff, here’s some more links for the end of the semester.
Gabriel García Márquez
Since I posted last the world has seen the loss of one of its greatest writers, Gabriel García Márquez. In memoriam, some links.
Obituary at The New York Times. At The Huffington Post. A 1999 piece from The New Yorker. The New York Review of Books reviews One Hundred Years of Solitude in 1970.
National Security State
Vivian Salama, “Death From Above: How American Drone Strikes are Devastating Yemen.”
Edward Snowden discusses his conversation with Vladimir Putin.
Science
Earth twin found. And here.
Climate change is not natural.
The Hyperarchival Parallax 