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Strange waves rippled around the world, and nobody knows why

I don’t have time to find my collection of relevant maps but if I’m correct and, present day plate tectonics are going in the opposite direction than commonly understood version of Pangea then, increased global temperatures are melting ice and exacerbating movement along the main lines of separation — from the Eurasian plate (most solid) moving apart down both sides of India, along the Eastern coast of Africa and, perhaps all the way through to Antarctica, where significant ice melt has been detected underneath.


Instruments picked up the seismic waves more than 10,000 miles away—but bizarrely, nobody felt them.

Electrically-induced smells pave way for “cochlear implant for the nose”

Cochlear implants allow deaf people to hear by electrically stimulating their auditory nerves, and have been doing so for years. While that’s all very well and good, what about people who have lost their sense of smell? Well, new research suggests that we may be getting closer to an electrical implant for them, too.

People can sustainably share resources, under some conditions

That’s why freedom of movement is one of the key conditions necessary to successfully share resources. Other necessary conditions include low population densities, low market value of the resources, variability in resource distribution and an ethos of sharing.


Sometimes, there is no “tragedy” in the tragedy of the commons, according to a new analysis that challenges a widely accepted theory.

Scientists have long believed that when there is to a shared resource, people will inevitably overuse it, leading to ruin for everyone—an idea known as the “ of the commons.”

But in an analysis of eight case studies from around the world—from foragers in Australia to mangrove fishers in Ecuador— found that people can successfully share and sustainably use resources, under certain conditions.

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