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A Deck by  Carlijn Simons 
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Carlijn Simons
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Ever met a Coddiwomple? Well, here I am, someone who travels purposefully towards an as yet unknown destination. Hoping to create a better world along the way.

MEMBER SINCE June 30, 2021

26 Decks - 5 Followers

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WWW.ANTHROPOCENEMAGAZ...
Discovery unleashes switchgrass potential for making biofuel
By Carlijn Simons - March 26, 2023
While just became clear oil companies are stopping their investment in reesea...

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EURONEWS
Firing moon dust into space could reverse global warming, study claims
By Carlijn Simons - February 15, 2023
It sounds a bit far-fetched to me, but we need all the ideas we can get.

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THE GUARDIAN
Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images
By Carlijn Simons - January 22, 2023
Because emperor penguins breed on sea ice and are located in remote, inaccess...

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THE GUARDIAN
Splitting the atomic scientists: how the Ukraine war ruined physics
By Carlijn Simons - January 18, 2023
War destroys not only people's lives. It has so many devastating side effects...

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SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE
Eight Cool New Technologies From This Year’s Consumer Electronics Show
By Carlijn Simons - January 16, 2023
The future promises to be interesting if these technologies will make it into...

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HAKAI MAGAZINE
Using Drones to Spy Beach-Bound Sharks | Hakai Magazine
By Carlijn Simons - January 11, 2023
Before nets and baited-hook drumlines were used to keep sharks at bay. But th...

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GRIST
Biology textbooks aren’t keeping up with climate science
By Carlijn Simons - January 06, 2023
This study was about U.S.’s undergraduate biology textbooks. But it wouldn't ...

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WWW.ANTHROPOCENEMAGAZ...
Tapping the massive supply of fresh water vapor above oceans
By Carlijn Simons - December 26, 2022
Sounds like an idea to me. Let's try!

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NIGERIAN TEEN CLIMATE...
Scientists freeze Great Barrier Reef coral in world-first trial
By Carlijn Simons - December 23, 2022
The idea is to freeze and store coral, to later reintroduce it into the wild ...

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NIGERIAN TEEN CLIMATE...
Mysteries of universe in focus for South African mega telescope
By Carlijn Simons - December 13, 2022
Not only in Australia, but also in South-Africa an enormous radio astronomy i...

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THE GUARDIAN
#ClimateScam: denialism claims flooding Twitter have scientists worried
By Carlijn Simons - December 11, 2022
Ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter, the platform has become more racist a...

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THE GUARDIAN
Rolls-Royce and easyJet test aircraft engine running on hydrogen
By Carlijn Simons - November 29, 2022
Hydrogen is one of the most promising ways to make flying more sustainable. T...

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GIZMODO
For the First Time Ever, People Are Getting Transfusions of Lab-Grown Blood Cells
By Carlijn Simons - November 11, 2022
Lab-grown red blood cells: wow, that would really be a game changer for peopl...

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NL TIMES
Pilot project for hydrogen boiler to heat homes allowed to begin
By Carlijn Simons - November 09, 2022
Hydrogen is expected to play an important role in our future energy supply. T...

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INVERSE
Thanks to this new battery, EV charging just got a whole lot faster
By Carlijn Simons - October 26, 2022
A battery that could charge up in about 11 minutes: now, that indeed would be...

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INVERSE
Citroën’s new concept EV uses cardboard for parts — and it’s brilliant
By Carlijn Simons - October 09, 2022
Forget metal, recycled cardboard is the next thing in the car industry. At le...

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FUTURISM
Swiss Government Scientist Says We May Be on the Brink of Discovering Alien Life
By Carlijn Simons - September 29, 2022
It may still take 25 years, nevertheless the prospect is exiting.

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FUTURISM
Swiss Government Scientist Says We May Be on the Brink of Discovering Alien Life
By Carlijn Simons - September 27, 2022
It may still take 25 years, nevertheless the prospect is exiting.

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THE GUARDIAN
Kilimanjaro gets high-speed internet so climbers can tweet or Instagram ascent
By Carlijn Simons - August 20, 2022
This is pretty much sums up what the world is about these days: it's more imp...

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MIT NEWS | MASSACHUSE...
Silk offers an alternative to some microplastics
By Carlijn Simons - August 16, 2022
Microplastics in a variety of products, such as agricultural chemicals, paint...

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THE GUARDIAN
Man who threw away £150m in bitcoin hopes AI and robot dogs will get it back
By Carlijn Simons - August 05, 2022
I can imagine you at least want to try to retrieve a hard drive containing ap...

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THE GUARDIAN
DeepMind uncovers structure of 200m proteins in scientific leap forward
By Carlijn Simons - July 31, 2022
By knowing what the 3D structure of proteins is, one can predict its function...

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WIPO Global Awards 2022: Meet the Winners
By Carlijn Simons - July 20, 2022
VIDEO A Dutch company that designed a system that recycles waste water from w...

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TECHXPLORE.COM
Seaweed and 3D printers: Chile’s innovative approach to feeding kids
By Carlijn Simons - June 27, 2022
Kids that don't want to eat? Maybe food in the shape of Pokémon or an animal,...

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SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE
World’s Largest Bacterium Discovered in Caribbean Mangrove Swamps
By Carlijn Simons - June 27, 2022
Imagine you stumble upon a humans as tall as Mount Everest. That would be qui...

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INVERSE
Beer might actually improve gut health, study finds
By Carlijn Simons - June 24, 2022
Cheers!

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IEEE SPECTRUM
Photonic Quantum Computer Claims Speedup “Advantage”
By Carlijn Simons - June 15, 2022
7,800,000,000,000,000 times as fast as a normal computer. That's why quantum ...

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INVERSE
Origin of Life: Scientists may have found a missing link between the primordial world and modern life
By Carlijn Simons - May 30, 2022
The main building blocks of life are DNA. However, DNA requires proteins in o...

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QUTECH
Dutch researchers teleport quantum information across rudimentary quantum network - QuTech
By Carlijn Simons - May 26, 2022
In an absolute breakthrough researchers in Delft have succeeded in teleportin...

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INVERSE
Study: Lunar soil has the right stuff for “extraterrestrial photosynthesis”
By Carlijn Simons - May 11, 2022
Possibly there is a way to sustain humans in space for a long time. And that ...

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THECONVERSATION.COM
The standard model of particle physics may be broken – an expert explains
By Carlijn Simons - May 11, 2022
Recent findings are forcing scientists to reconsider their way of thinking. W...

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THECONVERSATION.COM
Blasting out Earth’s location with the hope of reaching aliens is a controversial idea – two teams of scientists are doing it anyway
By Carlijn Simons - May 07, 2022
This must be so exiting: to call out into space, hoping someone or something ...

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WWW.VICE.COM
Loch Ness Monster Is ‘Obviously’ Not Just a Whale Penis, Scientist Says
By Carlijn Simons - May 04, 2022
Yep, science also has entertainment to offer.

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INVERSE
Chemists find a way to turn industrial waste into life saving medicine
By Carlijn Simons - April 30, 2022
The chemical industry generates significant amounts of waste. Such waste can ...

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INVERSE
How a ridge of ice in Greenland could help us find alien life in Europa’s ocean
By Carlijn Simons - April 21, 2022
Researchers found oceans beneath the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. That m...

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FUTURITY
Heating trick gets plastic waste to suck up CO2 - Futurity
By Carlijn Simons - April 21, 2022
A perfect Card to play on World Creativity and Innovation Day. Because a newl...

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REST OF WORLD
Ukraine’s tech community rallies to support refugees and battle misinformation
By Carlijn Simons - March 05, 2022
Back in the day people helped with goods. Now technological support plays a b...

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BBC NEWS
Giant pristine coral reef discovered off Tahiti
By Carlijn Simons - January 21, 2022
This just shows me that whatever a mess we humans make of our beautiful world...

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WSJ
Bees and Butterflies Get Confused by Air Pollutants, Posing Threat to Crops
By Carlijn Simons - January 22, 2022
Another convincing reason to rapidly do something about air quality. Because ...

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NEWS CENTER
DESI Creates Largest 3D Map of the Cosmos
By Carlijn Simons - January 19, 2022
Doesn't this look spectacular? And the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (...

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PHYS.ORG
Strong evidence shows Sixth Mass Extinction of global biodiversity in progress
By Carlijn Simons - January 15, 2022
During it's lifetime, planet earth already experienced five waves of mass bio...

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THE GUARDIAN
Global spread of autoimmune disease blamed on western diet
By Carlijn Simons - January 10, 2022
This doesn't surprise me, but still it's alarming: because unhealthy western ...

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THE VERGE
Scientists find unexpected trove of life forms beneath Antarctic ice shelf
By Carlijn Simons - January 03, 2022
That a variety of life is possible even beneath an Antarctica ice shelf, prov...

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UT NEWS
Virtual Conferences are Better for the Environment and More Inclusive - UT News
By Carlijn Simons - January 06, 2022
Personally I am not a big fan of online meetings. But the fact, as research s...

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TIME
How ‘Coral IVF’ Could Help Save the Great Barrier Reef
By Carlijn Simons - January 05, 2022
Is it a boy? Is it girl? No, it's a coral baby. And while humans are the caus...

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THE VERGE
Listen to these wild sounds NASA recorded from Jupiter’s moon
By Carlijn Simons - January 03, 2022
Want to know what a planet sounds like? NASA made recordings and it sounds pr...

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FUTURISM
Scientist Invents Screen That Creates Flavors When You Lick It
By Carlijn Simons - December 24, 2021
This could only be invented in Japan: a TV screen that generates flavors when...

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GRIST
Nature’s air sensors are growing on your street
By Carlijn Simons - December 13, 2021
You have probably never paid a lot of attention to moss on a tree. From now o...

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FUTURITY
Solar probe reveals clues to one of the sun’s greatest mysteries - Futurity
By Carlijn Simons - December 23, 2021
Why the sun's outer atmosphere is hotter than its surface, is one of the bigg...

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THE GUARDIAN
Bugs across globe are evolving to eat plastic, study finds
By Carlijn Simons - December 16, 2021
The resilience of nature doesn't stop to amaze me. Like this new study, that ...

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THE GUARDIAN
Nasa’s solar probe ‘touches’ sun for first time, dives into unexplored atmosphere
By Carlijn Simons - December 15, 2021
This is quite something: a spacecraft that plunged through the solar atmosphe...

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THE GUARDIAN
Tropical forests can regenerate in just 20 years without human interference
By Carlijn Simons - December 12, 2021
Some good news to brighten up your day! An international group of researchers...

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