telharmonium

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   by telharmonium 2y ago

   I'm reminded of the novel "Venomous Lumpsucker" by Ned Beauman, a deeply weird satire about the perverse incentives and behaviors engendered by the union of industrial consumption, market-based conservation, and the abstract
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   by telharmonium 5y ago

   There's a hilarious scene in Ned Beauman's "The Teleportation Accident" which revolves around Serge Voronoff’s monkey gland-grafting procedure. It's a wonderfully strange novel, set in the 1930's and richly mar
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   by telharmonium 7y ago

   I also wondered if the recent success of sea otter conservation efforts would be in conflict with abalone restoration. However, there seems to be evidence that, at least in the case of black abalone, abalone thrive in habitats where sea ott
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   by telharmonium 7y ago

   Unfortunately habitats are not fungible. A square mile of dry land is unlikely to be suitable for the species which live in the wetlands of a tidal estuary.
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   by telharmonium 9y ago

   Funnily enough, an essay cited by the article contains this quote in its opening paragraph: "...defining a heterogeneous orthodoxy for the coming Information Age..." [1] Presumably Victor's research group is working in opposi
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   by telharmonium 10y ago

   Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga involves interstellar travel on trains[1] which pass through artificial wormholes. I wouldn't recommend the books; he creates a world with so much potential, but the characters and story are