Amy Balkin People have long sought to understand, map, and occupy Earth’s atmosphere. The Atmosphere: A Guide is a poster-essay visualizing [...]
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Plastic Soup: or An Unnatural Journey
Mandy Barker It’s estimated that more than 8 million tons of plastic waste enters the oceans every year, damaging ecosystems, economies [...]
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ANONYMIZATION
Robert Harding Pittman During the course of my life I have witnessed more and more open land being bulldozed away for [...]
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Processed Views: Surveying the Industrial Landscape
Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman Growing up in the fertile agricultural center of the United States, we have witnessed great [...]
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The Art of Nature
An interview with Susan Derges Susan, your work speaks to our human continuity with the natural world, which comes across as [...]
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FOCUS: Game Over (for England and Wales)
William Outhwaite This is not the title I expected to use. I was hoping to begin by saying it was all [...]
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VIEWPOINT: Brexit, Class and British ‘National’ Identity
Gurminder K. Bhambra On the day before the referendum on our continued membership of the European Union, I was wondering about [...]
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ON THE FRONTLINE: Why we need to listen to the people experiencing foodbank Britain
Kayleigh Garthwaite My new book, Hunger Pains: life inside foodbank Britain, chronicles my time as a volunteer and a researcher [...]
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POLICY BRIEFING: Northern Ireland – where is the peace dividend?
Colin Knox The Policy Briefing section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal Policy & Politics. The section is curated by [...]
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Welfare Poison: Why everything you believed about the politics of nature-nurture may no longer be true
Maurizio Meloni In 1910 the British eugenics movement was shaken by a violent debate on the long-term effects of alcoholism. A [...]
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