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A magazine defending science and tech for, not on, human beings. What that means ~ https://t.co/9vHR1xgUgY Newsletter ~ https://t.co/2AoK0wMH0j Subscribe ~ https://t.co/yeh84ic4FM

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If you will it, it is no dream:
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@CharlesCMann
𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗
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Modest proposal, occasioned by chats last night at a wedding with some smart, curious, well-educated 20-somethings: All high-school students should be required to take a course called How the System Works. 1/5
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RT @tnajournal: An average man on the street could have told you that crossing darkly lit military helicopters over an active airplane land…
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If you study air and space disasters, you will notice a recurring pattern: there are often well-placed observers who know almost immediately what went wrong.
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RT @s8mb: Great piece by @CharlesCMann (and excellent artwork). Looking forward to this whole series.
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Fertilization, irrigation, genetics: the three practices that let us feed the whole world for the first time in history. Part of a new series from Charles C. Mann (@CharlesCMann):
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RT @KentatCEI: Happy Birthday to the late, great Julian L. Simon. IYKYK
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In case you missed it:
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I was included today in an NPR story on humans to #Mars. #MarsSociety #NASA #Space #SpaceX
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All evidence so far suggests that the air safety system fell into the trap of "normalized deviance," where behavior known to be unsafe comes to be accepted when it at first doesn't cause any problems.
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About the plane crash:
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“No matter how much technical expertise and neutral proceduralism you throw at the problem, it simply runs against any large bureaucracy’s operational tides to surface concerns that could implicate its very legitimacy, its nature, its mandate to exist.”
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RT @CharlesCMann: How things apparently work nowadays, personal division. About 2.5 years ago, I posted the linked thread. Which I guess yo…
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RT @stevenbjohnson: Fantastic idea for a series and the perfect author for it in the brilliant @CharlesCMann. Shares a lot of the underlyin…
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RT @robinsonmeyer: Love this @CharlesCMann ode to “the cathedrals of our secular era” —the electric grid, the public-water supply, the food…
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And we are just this week putting the finishing touches on Part 2: Water, coming soon in our Spring 2025 issue. Subscribe now to make sure you don't miss it:
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RT @tylercowen: The great Charles C. Mann, @CharlesCMann, on infrastructure as the essential feature of modernity:
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RT @AriSchulman: It's actually a recurring pattern in aviation disasters that there were specific warnings that they would happen. When th…
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Thread:
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Ari Schulman
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I have a new piece out on why the guy in this comic is, now and then, correct — why the FAA ignored the glaring red warning lights that had been going off for over 30 years about exactly the collision scenario that happened at National Airport two weeks ago.
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