GAVNet Collaborative Curation

SINCE THE END of November, this is some of what has sunk to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean: vacuum cleaners; Kate Spade accessories; at least $150,000 of frozen shrimp; and three shipping containers full of children's clothes. "If anybody has investments in deep-sea salvage, there's some beautiful product down there," Richard Westenberger, chief financial officer of the children's clothing brand Carter's told a conference recently.

A deep-dive into the recent crypto-collectible or NFT craze and separating the hype from the facts.NFT

Researchers at Poland's Institute of Nuclear Physics found complex 'fractal' patterning of sentences in literature, particularly in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, which resemble 'ideal' maths seen in nature

In the not-too-distant past, narratives were set more or less consensually by the New York-based media establishment (assisted by its Washington-based enablers). But as Martin Gurri and Bruno Maçães have shown, the narrative-setting days of elite media are now over, and we live in a world of fractured narratives proffered by Extremely Online factions that interpret reality-or jettison it entirely, in favor of constructing their own "unreality" (Maçães' phrase)-primarily through the lens of their own self-justifying and unfalsifiable narratives.

Humans are largely omnivores, and meat has featured in the diets of most cultures. However, with the increasing population and pressure on the environment, traditional methods of meeting this fundamental food requirement are likely to fall short. Now, researchers at the University of Tokyo report innovative biofabrication of bovine muscle tissue in the laboratory that may help meet escalating future demands for dietary meat.

In the small coastal country, an exploding industry has led to big economic promises, and a steep environmental price.

That's what Jean-Michel Connard's brother resorted to in Texas this week. The survival bucket. He's been dreaming of civilization falling apart for months now. Turns out, the guy wasn't even ready for a power outage. He can't cook anything. He can't open any of his canned food.

Research is showing that - despite the fact that many workers report they want to continue to work away from the office post-pandemic - managers are having a hard time with it.

Humanity's most pressing need is to learn how to live within our planet's boundaries - something that likely means doing without economic growth. How, then, can we create a non-growth society that is both just and equitable? I attempt to address this question by looking at an aspect of sustainability (and equity) that is not often discussed: the growth of hierarchy. As societies consume more energy, they tend to become more hierarchical. At the same time, the growth of hierarchy also seems to be a key driver of income/resource inequality. In this essay, I review the evidence for the joint relation between energy, hierarchy and inequality. I then speculate about what it implies for achieving a sustainable and equitable future.

In more than 1,000 years, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), also known as Gulf Stream System, has not been as weak as in recent decades. This is the result of a new study by scientists from Ireland, Britain and Germany. The researchers compiled so-called proxy data, taken mainly from natural archives like ocean sediments or ice cores, reaching back many hundreds of years to reconstruct the flow history of the AMOC. They found consistent evidence that its slowdown in the 20th century is unprecedented in the past millennium; it is likely linked to human-caused climate change. The giant ocean circulation system is relevant for weather patterns in Europe and regional sea levels in the U.S.; its slowdown is also associated with an observed cold blob in the northern Atlantic.

team of researchers concludes that a game-theory approach may offer new insights into both the spread and disruption of viruses, such as SARS-CoV-2. Its work, described in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, applies a "signaling game" to an analysis of cellular processes in illuminating molecular behavior.