November 30, 2015

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French police teargas crowds and arrest more than 200 ahead of the Paris Climate Conference, which begins today.

If you don’t watch for three years, you haven’t missed anything. UN climate conferences are soap operas.

Elizabeth Kolbert profiles Christina Figueres, who is facilitating the Paris climate conference.

“In terms of the [Paris] negotiations, they’re largely a sham.”

The estimated carbon footprint for the officials, workers, journalists, and activists who came to Paris: 300K tons.

How much trouble are we in? Everything you wanted to ask about climate change, but were afraid to know.

California’s Central Valley is sinking two inches per month.

We can adapt, we can migrate, or we can die. Climate change is killing the agriculture some 15.5 million poor Guatemalans rely on for work.

The role of technologists in contributing to the fight against climate change.

Half those killed by gun violence are black men in cities—a fact the gun control debate ignores.

UN finds hookup apps have led to dramatic HIV-infection spikes in young gay men in Southeast Asia.

Porn star James Deen, mainstreamed by GQ as “the well-hung boy next door,” accused of rape by three co-stars.

Male artists dominate field recording. The danger of being alone and female in the outlands hurts careers.

There’s a real hobbit energy to Yes. In prog and life, you must work to reach the end.

Researchers study the many intersections of CrossFit and religion.