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Nonprofit publishing imprint from Columbia Journalism School // Understanding the world one short book at a time 📖 🌏
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    "It turns out that there really is something unique about Earth: as far as we currently know, it is the only place where life exists. But why?" Read an excerpt from Adam Kirsch's WE WANT TO BELIEVE 🛸 (on sale August 25) at The Guardian ⤵️
    The great silence: why haven’t we found any aliens yet?
    From theguardian.com
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    Aug 27
    Regulation is coming for social networks with Meta’s landmark settlement. How did we get here, and what more can be done? Olivier Sylvain has answers & offers solutions with RECLAIMING THE INTERNET: How Big Tech Took Control—and How We Can Take It Back globalreports.columbia.edu/books/reclaimi…
    A blue background with gray and black pixelated square along the bottom:
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It has been policymakers’ failure to recognize platforms and other internet companies for what they are:
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Ordinary commercial enterprises whose bottom line often conflicts with the best interests of consumers.
White text: Olivier Sylvain, RECLAIMING THE INTERNET
    image of the book "Reclaiming the Internet: How Big Tech Took Control—and How We Can Take It Back" by Olivier Sylvain

with "on sale now" below
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    Aug 27
    “I think we have this basic desire to feel like we’re not alone in the universe. One way of responding to it has been through science fictional beliefs, like belief in aliens.” Adam Kirsch joined Michael Shermer to talk about his book WE WANT TO BELIEVE
    Why We Want to Believe in Aliens and Why We Still Haven’t Found Them
    From skeptic.com
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    Aug 25
    Happy pub day to WE WANT TO BELIEVE: How Aliens Went Mainstream and Why It Matters, by Adam Kirsch “A thoughtful essay in what the search for extraplanetary aliens tells us about ourselves.” —@KirkusReviews 🛸 find out if the truth is out there--> globalreports.columbia.edu/books/we-want-…
    lots of copies of We Want to Believe messily arranged on a table

cover design by Kelly Winton
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    Aug 14
    “The safety of the cables in the ocean is a national security issue, a precondition for the economy & a matter of literal life and death” Learn more about the delicate system of undersea cables with this THE WEB BENEATH THE WAVES excerpt at The Guardian
    Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet | Samanth...
    From theguardian.com
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