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~ still human in the strange loop •writer /editor /producer # º contributing ed Fast Company ⟴ founding ed Motherboard; cofounder Bandwagon

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I am a writer and video producer with an interest in technology, geography, design and the environment. I have written for Time, Domus, the New York Observer, Foreign Policy, Treehugger, Architectural Record, The Guardian, New York Magazine, Slate and others. I am the founding editor of and producer for the VICE future culture website Motherboard.

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The Home of Olive Oil and Mozzarella Is Still the Mafia's Toxic Waste Land

The Home of Olive Oil and Mozzarella Is Still the Mafia's Toxic Waste Land

"See Naples and die," Goethe once wrote, referring to the stunning beauty of the Mediterranean city during it…

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What We Want Most in the Era of Surveillance

What We Want Most in the Era of Surveillance

Since Edward Snowden's disclosures about widespread NSA surveillance, Americans and people everywhere have be…

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The US is building a bioweapons lab in Kazakhstan

The US is building a bioweapons lab in Kazakhstan

In 1992, Dr. Kanatjan Alibekov, a biologist from the Soviet Union, boarded a flight in Almaty, then Kazakhsta…

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The Other Shooter: The Saddest and Most Expensive 26 Seconds of Amateur Film Ever Made

The Other Shooter: The Saddest and Most Expensive 26 Seconds of Amateur Film Ever Made

Because the President's limousine passed almost exactly in front of Dallas clothing manufacturer Abraham Zapr…

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How to Live in the Future and Be More Productive: A Video Interview With Miranda July

How to Live in the Future and Be More Productive: A Video Interview With Miranda July

In the future, Miranda July, who is a filmmaker, performance artist, musician, and writer, Aquarius, webmaste…

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Meet Errol Morris

Meet Errol Morris

There are plenty of things that make Tabloid newsworthy - sex, Mormons, kidnapping, cloning - but it was by t…

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Fusion energy is suddenly flush with cash. Troy Carter knows that won’t be enough

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By Alex Pasternack 
| Fast Company
The plasma physicist Troy Carter leads the U.S. fusion energy program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It’s one of science’s hottest and most humbling pursuits: trying to understand plasma, the superheated, electrically charged gas at the heart of stars—and, since the 1950s, every hydrogen bomb test and fusion experiment. Unlike the fission reactions that power the world’s 440 existing reactors, fusion promises relatively safer, zero-carbon power, with far less radioactive waste.
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A Sam Altman–backed start-up says it will deliver fusion electricity by 2029. One of its own co-founders says the physics may not work

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By Alex Pasternack 
| Scientific American
Just east of Malaga, Wash.—a farm town in apple country—the Columbia River runs between basalt bluffs past the Rock Island Dam, which has turned water into electricity for the Pacific Northwest since 1933. Now, on a flat stretch of land nearby, a very different kind of power project is taking shape.
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Blind Spots - Columbia Journalism Review

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By Alex Pasternack 
| Columbia Journalism Review
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. On March 2, two days into the United States and Israel’s air campaign against Iran, CNN published imagery showing a still-smoking operations center at Port Shuaiba in Kuwait, where six American service members had just been killed by an Iranian drone—before the Pentagon had provided details of the strike, including the full death toll. A day later, the New York Times offered a preliminary rundown of damage to US military sites across the Gulf.
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