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Climate journalist; founded HEATED in 2019 after reporting on climate at The New Republic and ThinkProgress.

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  Global warming is destabilizing mountain glaciers, making catastrophic glacial-lake outburst floods more frequent.

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  As the planet warms, the entire region's frozen mountain slopes are becoming less stable, making glacier collapses-and the catastrophic floods they can unleash-far more likely.

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Founder and editor of ToolGuyd, a tool review site covering power tools, hand tools, workshop equipment and EDC gear. He writes under his first name on the site.

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  Synergy Alpha Elite dumbbell rack

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  Summary: Shipping damage. Residue on some of the components. Loud pings and pops from the assembled weight rack. A design that looked great and saved space but was painfully unusable. Restocking fee. Non-refunded shipping fees. Ghosted me about the refund.

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Researcher on distributed systems and local-first software at the University of Cambridge; wrote Designing Data-Intensive Applications.

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  Europe being locked out of US cloud services is still unlikely, but it is no longer unthinkable, and serious systems should be engineered against it.

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  So, what if geopolitics was to go horribly wrong and tensions escalate and Europe find itself suddenly locked out of US cloud services? I hope that doesn't happen. I still think it's fairly unlikely, but it's no longer unthinkable.

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Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

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  If the industrial stack is not off fossil fuels within ten or twenty years, the country gets poor twice over — the way Britain did when its coal ran out, and again when Florida floods.

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  the meta problem here is if we don't move our industrial stack off fossil fuels in 10 or 20 years, first of all, we'll get poor the same way you UK did, right? Because they ran out of coal basically. And the second thing is we'll get poor because we'll flood our coastal cities in Florida underneath climate change.

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Writer on a lost civilisation of the Ice Age; wrote Fingerprints of the Gods and presented Ancient Apocalypse. Archaeologists reject the claims, which he disputes at length.

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  The worldwide flood traditions record the Younger Dryas, not local floods that storytellers mistook for global ones.

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  I’m not persuaded by that, particularly since we know there was a nasty epoch, the Younger Dryas, when flooding did occur, and when the Earth was subjected to events cataclysmic enough to extinguish entirely the megafauna of the ice age.

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Urban planner, co-author with Charles Marohn of Escaping the Housing Trap, and policy director at the Parking Reform Network. Wrote for Strong Towns from 2015, mostly about how housing markets actually set prices.

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  Housing demand that a neighbourhood is not allowed to absorb does not disappear; it floods somewhere else, and that is what a housing shortage actually is.

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  So, when housing demand can’t be met in a given place, it doesn’t evaporate. It spills over. It goes somewhere.

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Investigative journalist; wrote Area 51, The Pentagon's Brain and Nuclear War: A Scenario, reconstructing what secret programmes actually did from interviews and declassified records.

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  American nuclear doctrine is not tit for tat: one incoming warhead is answered with eighty, and that is what the phrase escalate to deescalate means.

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  But it’s actually more than that. They launch one, we launch 80. That’s called escalate to deescalate. Pound the you know what out of them to get them to stop.

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Historian of Ukraine at Harvard; wrote The Gates of Europe, Chernobyl and The Russo-Ukrainian War.

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  Leaders in a nuclear crisis who believe they are in control are not in control, and events on the ground can escalate against their wishes.

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  So people who believe that they’re in control really are not in control, and that can escalate whether they very often against their wishes.

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Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.

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  Without sufficient caution, advanced autonomous AI could cause irreversible loss of human control and culminate in large-scale loss of life or human extinction.

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  Without sufficient caution, we may irreversibly lose control of autonomous AI systems, rendering human intervention ineffective. Large-scale cybercrime, social manipulation, and other harms could escalate rapidly. This unchecked AI advancement could culminate in a large-scale loss of life and the biosphere, and the marginalization or extinction of humanity.

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