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MA Martina H · Southern Winds

The Happiest People on Earth Are Drunk at Home in Their Underwear (And No, It’s Not the Saunas)

Nine straight years on top of a ladder they refuse to climb

Jul 16, 2026 · 10 min read · 859 claps paywalled #mental-health #data-science #lifestyle

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JA Jamal J. Ghadi · Southern Winds

Wilderness In Alaska Poisoned Itself — and Nobody Was Holding the Shovel

There’s a mine dumping acid into the last clean rivers on Earth with no owner, no pit, and no name on a permit

Jul 14, 2026 · 8 min read · 271 claps paywalled #climate-change #science #data-science

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KA Kamel Lahssini · Southern Winds

The Man Who Escaped a Russian Prison and Became King of Madagascar

The extraordinary true story of eighteenth-century adventurer Maurice-Auguste Beniowski

Jul 14, 2026 · 11 min read · 295 claps paywalled #history #literature #travel

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JM JMresearch · Southern Winds

The Tyranny of Legibility: Why You Can’t Explain a Life Without Work

Why taking a break feels like a moral failure, and how modern society deleted our vocabulary of existence outside of a resume

Jul 14, 2026 · 7 min read · 50 claps paywalled #society #philosophy #capitalism

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MA Martina H · Southern Winds

What If We Could Stop El Niño Before It Even Starts?

We could be playing god before we’ve even tried the one fix that actually works

Jul 13, 2026 · 10 min read · 446 claps paywalled #climate-change #technology #science

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NE Neha Timande · Southern Winds

Why is India getting flooded despite Super El Niño?

What is Indian El Niño, and how did it shield India from Super El Niño?

Jul 12, 2026 · 6 min read · 150 claps paywalled #climate-change #world #india

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RI Ricky Lanusse · Southern Winds

The Oldest Subscription On Earth Is Sitting At Your Dinner Table (And You Can Never Cancel It)

Before apps learned recurring revenue, tyrants learned to tax the edible choke point

Jul 09, 2026 · 11 min read · 366 claps paywalled #history #technology #data-science

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JA Jamal J. Ghadi · Southern Winds

What’s Your Kidney’s Price Tag?

The market already exists, and everyone gets paid except the person who takes the knife

Jul 07, 2026 · 11 min read · 287 claps paywalled #health #money #psychology

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RL RL Vanwey · Southern Winds

The Evisceration of Venezuela

Even planet Earth seems to have it out for the country

Jul 05, 2026 · 13 min read · 214 claps paywalled #venezuela #global-south #politics

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RI Ricky Lanusse · Southern Winds

There’s a Currency in Your Wallet Rotting Right Now (And No, It’s Not Crypto)

A few got the version that lasts forever. You got the strawberries.

Jul 05, 2026 · 11 min read · 657 claps paywalled #money #economics #society

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AB Abdullah Ijaz · Southern Winds

The Volcano That Was Supposed to Kill Us

The story of how a volcanic winter nearly wiped out humanity 74,000 years ago is unraveling. What actually happened says something about…

Jul 03, 2026 · 7 min read · 807 claps paywalled #history #science #climate

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MA Martina H · Southern Winds

The AMOC Is Weakening But It Won’t Collapse

A wound that you can see from the coastline is also a refusal to die

Jul 03, 2026 · 8 min read · 948 claps paywalled #climate-change #data-science #science

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RO Roberto Suarez · Southern Winds

Climb, Post, Bury: Death and Shame in Influencer Mountaineering

The climber takes the photo. The porter takes the risk, and a few hundred dollars when he dies.

Jul 02, 2026 · 10 min read · 602 claps paywalled #culture #travel #society

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JA Jamal J. Ghadi · Southern Winds

How Do You Outswim Water That Has Become Poison?

The largest marine kill that was never a disaster

Jul 02, 2026 · 7 min read · 406 claps paywalled #climate-change #data-science #science

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MA Martina H · Southern Winds

The Heatwave That Broke Memory

Europe was built for a climate that no longer exists

Jun 29, 2026 · 8 min read · 743 claps paywalled #climate-change #science #technology

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RL RL Vanwey · Southern Winds

The Fighting Force the US Couldn’t Beat

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (the IRGC)

Jun 25, 2026 · 21 min read · 101 claps paywalled #iran #middle-east #politics

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JA Jamal J. Ghadi · Southern Winds

How Does a Pond Become a Wall of Water That Obliterates a Border Crossing?

A siren can also be just a soundtrack for disaster

Jun 24, 2026 · 5 min read · 287 claps paywalled #climate-change #science #technology

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MA Martina H · Southern Winds

The Most Valuable Real Estate on Earth Is Empty Water

Welcome to the latest race to choke the world

Jun 23, 2026 · 7 min read · 469 claps paywalled #business #technology #psychology

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RO Roxana Ologeanu-Taddei · Southern Winds

Management Scholars Stopped Being the Guardians of Liberal Capitalism

The field that built the ideological backbone of capitalism is now questioning it

Jun 21, 2026 · 4 min read · 175 claps paywalled #economy #academia #management

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JM JMresearch · Southern Winds

The Great Digital Retreat

How young people from Brooklyn to Beijing are walking away from the internet, and what they’re finding instead

Jun 21, 2026 · 7 min read · 50 claps paywalled #gen-z #technology #psychology

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NA Navin Pandit · Southern Winds

The Hidden Physics of Southern Hemisphere Storms

How an endless loop of open water turned the bottom of the world into a permanent weather machine.

Jun 20, 2026 · 8 min read · 249 claps paywalled #science #climate-change #physics

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MA Martina H · Southern Winds

The $500 Billion Way to Reopen a Door That Was Already Open

The US went to war to take it all and bought the Strait back at retail, financing included

Jun 18, 2026 · 7 min read · 0 claps paywalled #politics #war #money

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RI Ricky Lanusse · Southern Winds

Antarctica Is Done Being the Coldest Argument

We kept it frozen in our heads so we could keep everything else exactly as it was

Jun 16, 2026 · 7 min read · 522 claps paywalled #climate-change #science #technology

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NA Navin Pandit · Southern Winds

“Cow’s Mouth” in the Himalayas Decides What’s on Dinner Tables 1,000 km Away

Inside the messy data, disputed timelines, and the half a billion people downstream who depend on one shrinking glacier

Jun 16, 2026 · 6 min read · 248 claps paywalled #climate-change #science #india

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MA Martina H · Southern Winds

Welcome To El Niño

A warm ocean meets a world already breaking on four fronts at once — and the next two years are where they collide

Jun 15, 2026 · 13 min read · 586 claps paywalled #climate-change #science #future

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AB Abdullah Ijaz · Southern Winds

We Are Planting the Wrong Trees and Calling It a Solution

Billions of trees are being planted every year as carbon offsets. A growing body of research says many of them make things worse.

Jun 15, 2026 · 7 min read · 242 claps paywalled #environment #science #climate-change

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JA Jamal J. Ghadi · Southern Winds

The Lake That Cooked Dolphins From the Inside

When the first measurement is the body count

Jun 14, 2026 · 6 min read · 324 claps paywalled #climate-change #science #technology

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NA Navin Pandit · Southern Winds

5 Studies That Prove Science Has a Geography Problem

How the world’s most climate-vulnerable regions remain the least studied and why that gap is costing lives

Jun 14, 2026 · 8 min read · 247 claps paywalled #climate-change #science #africa

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JA Jamal J. Ghadi · Southern Winds

This Will Be The Never-Ending War

Nobody can locate the beginning of the circle anymore — and the circle doesn’t particularly want to be located

Jun 12, 2026 · 8 min read · 369 claps paywalled #politics #technology #psychology

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MA Martina H · Southern Winds

The Worst Climate News of the Year Is a Patch of Cold Water

A weakening AMOC left one blue scar on the map — and its consequences run pole to pole

Jun 11, 2026 · 7 min read · 566 claps paywalled #climate-change #technology #science

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RI Ricky Lanusse · Southern Winds

What If This World Cup Never Happened?

Seven Eritrean players vanished after a crucial win, and somehow they might be the freest footballers in the world

Jun 10, 2026 · 9 min read · 540 claps paywalled #sports #politics #world

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RI Ricky Lanusse · Southern Winds

Will Happiness Ever Beat GDP?

We’re richer than we’ve ever been, and stuck exactly where we started

Jun 09, 2026 · 10 min read · 235 claps paywalled #psychology #money #technology

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RO Roberto Suarez · Southern Winds

The Charity Mirage: When the Donation Bin Feeds a Desert

You donate a clean conscience. They receive the landfill.

Jun 09, 2026 · 10 min read · 1,005 claps paywalled #climate-change #science #environment

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NA Navin Pandit · Southern Winds

Your Air Conditioner Is Stealing Someone Else’s Future

The cool air in your room has a cost. You just never see the invoice.

Jun 07, 2026 · 7 min read · 200 claps paywalled #climate-change #energy #environment

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MA Martina H · Southern Winds

The Glacier That Ate Eleven Climbers on a Sunday Afternoon

The Dolomites paid the receipt for Europe’s hottest summer in 200 years. The next ones are already coming due.

Jun 05, 2026 · 9 min read · 446 claps paywalled #climate-change #science #history

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DA David Steinman · Southern Winds

Nine Minutes in Taipei: A Plea from Death Alley

Sharon C. Lavigne carries the dying breath of Cancer Alley to Formosa Plastics’ shareholders, while Louisiana Democrats stand guard for the…

Jun 04, 2026 · 9 min read · 0 claps #health #climate-change #environment

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AB Abdullah Ijaz · Southern Winds

The Forest That Was Supposed to Save Us Just Switched Sides

Africa’s tropical forests quietly flipped from carbon absorbers to carbon emitters after 2010. Nobody in the mainstream press noticed.

Jun 04, 2026 · 8 min read · 308 claps paywalled #climate-change #science #technology

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RI Ricky Lanusse · Southern Winds

Patagonia™ Spent 53 Years Profiting From My Homeland — Now It’s Suing a Drag Queen Over the Name

This time, profit beat the planet, and it did it wearing the planet’s favorite jacket.

Jun 04, 2026 · 10 min read · 592 claps paywalled #technology #lgbtq #climate-change

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JA Jamal J. Ghadi · Southern Winds

The Heat Knows Exactly How Much Your Life Is Worth

Across India, the air gets hotter the cheaper the body underneath it

Jun 03, 2026 · 9 min read · 306 claps paywalled #climate-change #data-science #science

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MA Martina H · Southern Winds

The War That Sold Solar Panels

An oil-addicted empire bombed the present to defend the past, and accidentally built the future. But does the fire need to be this large?

Jun 03, 2026 · 9 min read · 450 claps paywalled #technology #climate-change #data-science

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KA Kamel Lahssini · Southern Winds

Al-Idrisi and the World Map That Changed Geography

Mapping a World No One Had Ever Seen From Above

May 26, 2026 · 8 min read · 297 claps #cartography #maps #history

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NE Neha Timande · Southern Winds

Why are tribals in Odisha’s Sijimalli hills protesting?

The continuation of the extraction and exploitation story.

May 24, 2026 · 8 min read · 50 claps paywalled #world #india #justice

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RL RL Vanwey · Southern Winds

Who Really is Hezbollah?

Putting aside the propaganda and politicization to uncover what truly motivates the group

Apr 22, 2026 · 11 min read · 386 claps paywalled #hezbollah #lebanon #israel