In 1969 American ecologist Robert Paine removed as many starfish as he could from a section of a Washington beach, to see what would happen to the marine ecosystem. The result was a devastating collapse in biodiversity - mostly because mussels, the key food source for the starfish, overproliferated and took over the habitat they … Continue reading Stewards of Destruction: How the Keystone Hypothesis Enabled Popular Science to Mislead Us

The internet became capitalism’s most diabolical invention: providing tools that were meant to entertain and connect, then using them to monitor, control and monetize us. We became aware of the surveillance perpetrated by social media very early on, in the same way we gnaw into a pizza fully aware that we are ingesting hormones, preservatives, … Continue reading The Big Internetic Sleep