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Nature and Science December 2023
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| Your Face Belongs To Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy As We Know It by Kashmir HillNew York Times technology reporter Kashmir Hill investigates controversial startup Clearview AI, which created powerful facial recognition software and made it available to law enforcement agencies and corporate clients. Further reading: Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy by Richard Laurent and Sandrine Rigaud; "I Have Nothing to Hide": And 20 Other Myths About Surveillance and Privacy by Heidi Boghosian. |
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Scrubbing the Sky : Inside the Race to Cool the Planet
by Paul Mckendrick
Drawing on interviews with stakeholders at the intersection of climate science, energy technology, and public policy, Paul McKendrickâs investigation traces more than 20 years of technological development with direct air capture. Clear and riveting prose presents the full story of this fascinating pursuit for the first time.
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The parrot and the igloo : climate and the science of denial
by David Lipsky
Starring heroes, villains, pioneers and con artists, this dramatic narrative of the long, strange march of climate science masterfully traces the evolution of climate denial, which grew out of early efforts to build a network of untruth about products like aspirin and cigarettes.
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Fire weather : a true story from a hotter world
by John Vaillant
The best-selling author of The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival describes the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire disaster that drove 88,000 people from their homes instantly and how this is a shocking preview of a hotter, more flammable world.
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