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Matt Davis
Matt Davis writes stories about science, technology, bizarre anecdotes from history, esoteric odds and ends, bleak but nevertheless fascinating environmental issues, and whatever else grabs his easily grabbed attention.
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The world's getting hotter, and it's getting more volatile. We need to start thinking about how climate change encourages conflict.
It's much more than an art form.
Traveling to Mars is going to be hard. Not going completely bonkers when we're there may be even harder.
These modern-day hermits can sometimes spend decades without ever leaving their apartments.
Both the U.S. and the Soviet Union created secret cities to house the scientists working in their nuclear weapons programs. Both nations went about this in very different ways and with very different, sometimes disastrous, results.
Academic publishers have some of the highest profit margins in the world. In the digital age, researchers are starting to wonder whether publishers actually deserve this much money.
Although initial contact with outsiders is stressful, over time we figure out how to fit them into our lives.