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  • To Save Forests, Researchers Are Hooking Trees Up To Twitter

    To Save Forests, Researchers Are Hooking Trees Up To Twitter

    Gizmodo Australia

    In July 2018, a century-old red oak went live on Twitter. The account @awitnesstree, tweeting from the Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts, introduces itself in its bio: Witnessing life as a tree in a changing environment for more than a century. Views are my own – sort of (data translated by scientists and communicators at…

  • Are We Ever Going to Run Out of Digital Storage Space?

    Are We Ever Going to Run Out of Digital Storage Space?

    Daniel Kolitz

    We live in a world of refuse — not simply the orange peels, Amazon boxes, and old TVs rotting away in landfills but also the texts, emails, and torrented movies looked at once and left to languish in the cloud. We appear to be verging on a crisis point with the first kind of trash,…