What are we really doing?

I often test new LLM models with the following question — Given the following conditions, how many ways can Professor Y assign six different books to four different students? The most expensive book m...

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DKU ECO-FEB 2025 Speaker Series Please join us for a powerful event at the heart of DKU ECO-FEB 2025, where rigorous ethical inquiry meets practical action. Organized by Duke Kunshan University’s Plan...

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Photo by amine photographe Last weekend, I introduced Elizabeth Kolbert, one of my favorite climate and environmental writers. This week, I’d like to recommend David Wallace-Wells, the author of The U...

Logo of Ru I’m here to review Ru (茹), also known as Pure Vegan, a vegan restaurant in Shanghai, which I visited with members of Plant Futures DKU on a crisp Monday in December 2025. But before I tell ...

The cover of H is for Hope by Elizabeth Kolbert We’ve talked before about Elizabeth Kolbert, a writer whose words have reshaped how many of us see the planet we inhabit, her voice, sharp and measured,...

Zizaige/自在阁 This vegetarian buffet is a celebration of traditional Chinese food, offering dozens of dishes, including Suzhou-style noodles and the hands-on fun of a DIY mini-hotpot called Ma La Tang (...

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I recently learned, from the ever-illuminating Simon Willison, that Google has released a new model, gemini-2-0-flash-thinking-exp. So, naturally, I posed it a question, a little puzzle if you will. G...

What the fate of Greenland means for the rest of the Earth.

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This post summarizes the main findings of a new meta-analysis from the Humane and Sustainable Food Lab. We analyze the most rigorous randomized contr…

The university as we know it is dead. COVID-19 nearly killed it, and AI has dealt the final blow.

A revelatory account of how water has shaped the course of human life and history, and a positive vision of what the future can hold--if we act now From the very creation of the planet billions of ye...

Humanitix is the ticketing platform that takes the booking fees we all hate paying and dedicates the profits to charity. 100% of Humanitix's profits go to charities providing education, healthcare and...

Animal Rights

The legislation, known as the Puppy Mill Pipeline Act, aims to curb unethical breeding practices and promote animal adoptions from shelters and rescues.

Vegetarianism is a big deal, ethically speaking. It was put on the map in terms of public philosophy by utilitarian Peter Singer, with his landmark Animal Liberation, published back in 1975. In tru…

🙏 致谢 这篇文章由《卫报》专栏作家乔治·蒙比奥特撰写， 收录在他关于环境问题的文集《This Can’t Be Happening》中 。 本文最初于2017年12月20日发表在《卫报》。 随后在作者的网站上发表。 我们特别感谢蒙比奥特先生授权我们翻译并重新发布这篇文章。 不为人知的世界 乔治·蒙比奥（George Monbiot） 2017年12月 每个人看到的世界都不一样。我们生活在各自的感...

🙏 致谢 这篇文章由《卫报》专栏作家乔治·蒙比奥特撰写， 收录在他关于环境问题的文集《This Can’t Be Happening》中 。 本文最初于2017年12月20日发表在《卫报》。 随后在作者的网站上发表。 我们特别感谢蒙比奥特先生授权我们翻译并重新发布这篇文章。 不为人知的世界 乔治·蒙比奥（George Monbiot） 2017年12月 每个人看到的世界都不一样。我们生活在各自的感...

这一年的好戏，都将在我们的丰收节上呈现出来。

Here is a round-up of media highlights about my latest book

Twenty-four brain samples collected in early 2024 measured on average about 0.5% plastic by weight