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Natura Urbana

Big ideas in environment and natural history

Natura Urbana

A study of urban nature that draws together different strands of urban ecology as well as insights derived from feminist, posthuman, and postcolonial thought.
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Lessons From Lake Tanganyika’s Scale Eating Fish
Lessons From Lake Tanganyika’s Scale Eating Fish The macabre diets of scale-eating cichlids help shed light on the important role of frequency dependence in shaping genetic variation and the natural world.

By Jeffrey McKinnon

The Town Devoted to Philosophy
The Town Devoted to Philosophy Notes on my winter’s visit to Larung Gar, one of the largest academies of philosophy in history.

By Matthieu Ricard

Michael Taussig’s Delightful Anthropological Postcards
Michael Taussig’s Delightful Anthropological Postcards A collection of postcards from the renowned anthropologist’s first fully illustrated picture book, “Postcards for Mia."

By Michael Taussig

Will AI Render Programming Obsolete?
Will AI Render Programming Obsolete? It's exhilarating to think that, with the help of generative AI, anyone who can write can also write programs. It’s not so simple.

By Michael L. Littman

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New white paper “Access to Science and Scholarship: Key Questions about the Future of Research Publishing”

The project—including MIT Press's Director and Publisher Amy Brand and Director of Journals and Open Access Nick Lindsay—examines the current state of the research enterprise and what might come next.

Thursday November 30, 2023