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Is China Winning the Energy Race?

This video asks whether China's clean energy build-out is genuine progress or greenwashing, framing its strategy as 'building before breaking': scaling up renewables, batteries and electrification before displacing the coal-based system underneath. New 2025-2…

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[00:20] China leads in solar, wind, EVs, and battery storage expansion but still burns more fossil fuels than any other country
[07:31] As of end of July 2026, China's installed solar capacity reached 1.286 billion kilowatts, surpassing coal-fired power for the first time as t…
[07:31] Solar generation rose 15.5% year over year to 802.4 billion kilowatt-hours in the first seven months of 2026, adding 86GW after a record 315G…

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Biology, AI, and Diverse Intelligence by Michael Levin

53 min source · Michael Levin's Academic Content · 2026-09-21

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Levin argues neither living things nor machines are fully captured by machine metaphors, positioning himself against computationalist/molecular reductionists, who t…
Levin notes computationalists and molecular reductionists stop their explanatory reduction at chemistry rather than continuing further to quantum foam or particle p…
Levin says these two camps, computationalist/reductionist and organicist, together capture about 99% of the field's positions on life versus machines, stated withou…

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Science · Anton Petrov

Venus Surprises Again! Exciting Discoveries From The Sister Planet

20 min source · Anton Petrov · 2026-09-20

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Named study/source [00:53]: The video's central study is titled 'Tidal Demise: The Evolution and Fate of a Hypothetical Venus Moon,' published in the Astronomical J…
Named study/source [00:57]: The study is authored by Stephen R. Kane of UC Riverside with collaborators Franck Selsis and Jeremy Leconte of the Laboratoire d'astrop…
Concept [00:59]: The paper's abstract states Venus has no natural satellite and asks whether a formed moon could have survived through tidal evolution, meaning Venu…

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AI · Duncan Rogoff | Learn Cla…

7 Free Websites That Finally Kill AI Slop (underrated)

9 min source · Duncan Rogoff | Learn Claude Code · 2026-09-19

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Context: most videos claiming to teach $10,000-website design still produce results that look like AI slop [00:00]
Goal: show seven free resources to improve web design from trash to treasure [00:08]
Resource 1: awwwards.com, a site showcasing award-winning web design for inspiration when stuck [00:14]

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