The weekend is right here! Pour your self a mug of Volcanica espresso, seize a seat by the fireplace, and prepare for our longer-form weekend reads:
• Slicing-edge tech made this tiny nation a significant exporter of meals: The Netherlands has used advances in vertical farming, seed know-how and robotics to develop into a world mannequin. (Washington Submit)
• The soiled highway to scrub vitality: how China’s electrical car growth is ravaging the setting (Relaxation Of World) see additionally Inexperienced Factories Are Altering Minds in Extra Conservative US States: A minimum of $25.7 billion of clean-energy factories are within the works, and the roles they generate are profitable over extra People to photo voltaic, batteries and EVs. (Bloomberg)
• How are you going to inform if the corporate you’re interviewing with is rotten on the within? How are you going to inform the businesses who’re earnestly attempting to enhance aside from those who sound all polished and wholesome from the surface, while rotting on the within? (Charity WTF)
• The place Does All of the Cardboard Come From? I Needed to Know: I Needed to Know. Whole forests and massive factories operating 24/7 can barely sustain with demand. That is how the cardboard financial system works. (New York Instances Journal)
• The Fable of the 25-12 months-Previous Mind: A robust thought about human growth stormed popular culture and altered how we see each other. It’s largely bunk. (Slate)
• The Sundown: There are many causes to see nursing houses as unhappy, neglectful locations. There are additionally causes to see them as one thing else solely. (Longreads
• How centuries-old whaling logs are filling gaps in our local weather data: Whalers from the 18th and nineteenth centuries are serving to twenty first Century scientists on local weather change. (Grist) see additionally A Bestiary of Loss: In line with many ecologists, we’re within the midst of a brand new mass extinction occasion. And in contrast to every other within the Earth’s 4.54 billion yr historical past, this one is brought on by a single species of primate: people. (Public Area Evaluation)
• It’s Public Land. However the Public Can’t Attain It. A navigation app that illuminates public land inside privately held property has supercharged the query of who will get to go the place. (New York Instances)
• An engineering marvel simply saved Venice from a flood. What about when seas rise? Three years in the past, a historic rush of water surged into this metropolis, inundating eating places and church buildings, tossing boats onto streets, and leaving Venetians distressed a couple of future with ever extra excessive occasions. However this previous week, a type of occasions arrived — a tide almost as giant as 2019’s — and residents barely seen. The town was spared from catastrophe due to a $6 billion engineering venture designed to guard Venice from mass flooding and the exhausting cycle of cleanup and restoration. (Washington Submit) see additionally Constructing Quick and Gradual: The Empire State Constructing and the World Commerce Heart (Half I) The Empire State Constructing was accomplished in 1931. At a top of 1250 ft, it was the world’s tallest constructing, exceeding the just lately accomplished Chrysler constructing by 202 ft. It will maintain that title for the subsequent 39 years, till 1970 when it was surpassed in top by one other New York skyscraper, the under-construction World Commerce Heart, which might attain a top of 1368 ft on the North Tower. (Building Physics)
• Shane Gillis’s Fall and Rise: For a provocative comedian, dropping the job of a lifetime was the start of a second act. (New Yorker)
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