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What Does it Look Like When People Believe They Can Make a Difference? (opens the original)
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The Andes are getting their trees back. Across the high-altitude landscapes of Peru, communities are planting Polylepis by the hundreds of thousands, rebuilding a forest type so specialized that it exists almost nowhere else on Earth. These trees hold fog in their bark and release it slowly into the soil below. Watersheds that feed entire valleys depend on this exchange. When the forest disappears, the water follows it out.Acción Andina now counts over 1.1 million native trees under restoration
The Attention Economy is Starting to Starve (opens the original)
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Researchers at UC Irvine studied the Boston Marathon bombing and found something the news industry does not want printed. People who stood near the finish line, who felt the concussion of the blast and watched the chaos with their own eyes, reported less acute stress in the weeks after than people who never left their couch. The couch group consumed six or more hours of bombing coverage a day. That group scored nine times higher on acute stress than people with minimal exposure.The study ran in
The Orcas Started It: Who the Ocean Answers to (opens the original)
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Two-thirds of the ocean belongs to no one. No flag claims it, no navy patrols it with real authority, no corporation holds a deed to it, though plenty have tried to act like they do. That water has been a legal blank space for as long as modern law has existed, open to whoever could fish it hardest, drill it deepest, or sail through it fastest.The UK just signed the High Seas Treaty. That single signature builds a legal framework where none existed, a mechanism to designate marine protected area
I want to be Peter Thiel's Antichrist (opens the original)
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In fall 2025, Peter Thiel delivered an unusual four-part lecture series at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, private, sold-out talks organized by a nonprofit called ACTS 17 Collective. Someone leaked a recording.Over several weeks from mid-September through early October, he used the biblical concept of the Antichrist as a metaphor for modern forces that use fear of catastrophe to justify centralized control over technology, government, and society.Drawing on Christian theology and politic
When the Masses Defeat the Elites, F*ck up a Secret Society's Plans by Organizing (opens the original)
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A leak surfaced in June. Documents belonging to Dialog, the invitation-only group Peter Thiel co-founded twenty years ago, landed in the hands of reporters. The membership list ran to 222 names. From Trump administration officials, a NATO commander, senators, PayPal alumni, private equity billionaires. The agenda for their August retreat at Ireland’s Powerscourt Hotel included sessions on preparing for a third world war and building cults. Four days, five stars, off the record. The retreat was s
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