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By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Last year, we looked at coral and coral restoration where “coral gardeners” painstakingly reattached live coral bits to existing, damaged reefs. (Corals are honorary plants, for anyone who wants to send me pictures.) At that time, I questioned whether it was possible to “mobilize” coral gardeners for reef restoration, and whether it was or will be possible, it hasn’t happened. In this post (inspired by a reweeted thread by Sarah Taber from Interfluidit...

Research at Microsoft 2020: Addressing the present while looking to the future Published Microsoft researchers pursue the big questions about what the world will be like in the future and the role technology will play. Not only do they take on the responsibility of exploring the long-term vision of their research, but they must also be ready to react to the immediate needs of the present. This year in particular, they were asked to use their roles as futurists to address pressing societal c...

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ATR Extra: AIBA Presidential Candidate Reveals Deals 12/09/20 (ATR) Suleyman Mikayilov promises forgiveness of a $10 million debt and a new sponsor for the international boxing federation – but only if he is elected president. Suleyman Mikayilov (Mikayilov) Mikayilov said that Benkons, a company based in his native Azerbaijan, will waive the $10 million debt that makes it the chief creditor of AIBA. In addition, Nobel Oil Services, also based in Azerbaijan, has pledged a minimum of 3 millio...

Brotherhood. nobody has broken the zero sum mentality towards politics. i think what weve seen since, it only deepened that polarization, that divide, the reformist islamist alliance that seemed possible for a very short period of time is never coming back now. the divisions that have ensued since and have brought the country really to the brink of really -- to broad-based civil strive, the possibility for that is really gone. thats a tragedy for the country. >> i was just going to say, i covere...