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Piss & vinegar: Ingredients for green battery recycling

In Canada, misbehaving polar bears go to jail

Meet the climate psychologist who funds the most radical movements

The wizard of phosphorus: One man’s quest to turn sewage into eco-gold

Friedrich Nietzsche on how art can help you grow as a person

Ending National Parks

Biodiversity conservation needs a conceptual shift and be more ecologically contextual (commentary)

Why We Need Pirates

Nick Cave: ChatGPT and AI songwriting is ‘bullshit’

Watch this artist make political portraits from a mountain of plastic

Burning Man sues Biden administration over geothermal project

A far-out plan to build an asteroid city

Brian Eno says a new global movement is emerging to save the planet

How can human hair be used to fight pollution?

The tangled tale of how physicists built a groundbreaking wormhole in a lab | Aeon Videos

Inside the UK’s warm banks where people go to escape the cold

An Indigenous reservation has a novel way to grow food – below the earth’s surface

Pom-pom boys: Male cheerleading team hoping to challenge gender norms

Banksy’s copyright battle with Guess – anonymity shouldn’t compromise his legal rights

New floating solar farms that chase the sun

How Activists Are Trying to Change the Way Banking Gets Done

Meet the Iranians hopping between VPNs to stay connected

Welcome to Listenbourg, the ‘new EU country’ going viral on Twitter

How physics and a video game trick forever changed the NASCAR Championships

‘Austria is not an island’: Beer Party founder on his election success

Scorched Earth: Using NASA Fire Data to Monitor War Zones - bellingcat

GITEX: world’s biggest technology show

Mercury Prize 2022: what rapper Little Simz’ win says about the UK independent music scene

Inside the US facility that has cryofrozen 199 ‘patients’ and 100 pets

The surprising power of internet memes

Smart navigation app uses ‘3D sound’ to guide blind people

With human help, AIs are generating a new aesthetics. The results are trippy | Aeon Videos

The school with no homework and a 98% college acceptance rate

San Francisco decriminalizes plant-based psychedelics

Japanese professor wins Ig Nobel prize for study on knob turning

The Café That’s Upending Capitalism

How quantum levitation works

Hard Reset

From Brad Pitt to Lil Nas X, more men are turning to skirts

Why are French activists filling golf course holes with cement?

Why Nietzsche envied (and pitied) the stupidity of animals

Can Twerking Be an Expression of Power?

Solar and wind energy can now be stored in ‘sand batteries’

Dizzying discs and obscene wordplay – revisiting Marcel Duchamp’s 1926 film debut | Aeon Videos

Meet the American who invented the electric guitar and inspired rock ‘n’ roll

Read the conversations that helped convince a Google engineer an artificial intelligence chatbot had become sentient: ‘I am often trying to figure out who and what I am’

‘Write fewer papers, take more risks’: Researchers call for ‘rebellion’ against academic convention

Before the Beatles dropped acid, a BBC workshop was creating far-out sounds | Aeon Videos

Aviation giant KLM to face legal action in first major challenge to airline industry ‘greenwashing’

Shell consultant quits, accusing firm of ‘extreme harms’ to environment

The ‘jockstrap’ that revolutionised women’s sports