Farnia Fekri

Science, tech, and environment journalist. Published in VICE, Motherboard, and beyond.

45 articles

How to Understand Blockchains With Scrabble

July 20, 2018

This modified game of Scrabble called Scrabits is fast, chaotic, and educational.

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Doug Ford, Canada’s Version of Trump, Is Waging His Own War on the Environment

June 22, 2018

Doug Ford is already cutting the GreenON fund, and said that the cap-and-trade program will be his first priority as premier of Ontario.

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Carrie Goldberg Is Fighting Revenge Porn One Court Case at a Time

April 30, 2017

“I am one of my clients.”

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Kendra Kuhl Is Building a Device That Turns Pollution Into Products

April 28, 2017

The CTO of Opus 12 has been trying to help the environment since she was a grad student.

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Startup Founder Thuy Truong’s Latest Venture Is Giving People the Will to Fight Cancer

April 21, 2017

After several of her promising business ventures ended, the 32-year-old received a shocking diagnosis. Now she’s using her experiences to help others.

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Scientists Recreated the Elusive Rogue Wave in a Lab

April 09, 2017

Do wind patterns have anything to do with these destructive deep-ocean monsters?

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Scientists Recreated the Elusive Rogue Wave in a Lab

April 09, 2017

Do wind patterns have anything to do with these destructive deep-ocean monsters?

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Climate Change Will Make Airplane Turbulence Much Worse

April 06, 2017

As CO2 emissions increase, flights will be bumpier too.

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Physicist Mary Gaillard Has Spent Over Three Decades Fighting For Women in Science

April 05, 2017

She was Berkeley's first tenured female physics professor, and she's still fighting for equality.

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Liberals and Conservatives Are Reading Totally Different Science Books

April 03, 2017

In a new study, researchers were hoping science would be a bridge. That didn’t happen.

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This Map Will Show If Your Web Traffic Passes Through an NSA Listening Post

March 28, 2017

IXmaps wants to “make visible the secret, dangerous, often illegal forms of surveillance that are increasingly becoming part of everyday life.”

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Keystone XL Is Back From the Dead, And Environmentalists Are Ready to Fight

March 24, 2017

The Trump administration has issued a presidential permit for construction to begin.

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Keystone XL Is Back From the Dead, And Environmentalists Are Ready to Fight

March 24, 2017

The Trump administration has issued a presidential permit for construction to begin.

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The Quest to Turn the Arctic Into a Clean Energy Outpost Has Begun

March 23, 2017

"A lot of the remote communities are dependent on diesel."

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The Fight to Protect This Swath of Wilderness Is Going to Canada’s Supreme Court

March 22, 2017

The Peel Watershed, in the Yukon, is one of the largest intact pieces of wilderness left in North America. The Supreme Court will decide its fate.

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The Sound of Two Black Holes Colliding Is Music to Szabolcs Marka’s Ears

March 19, 2017

“It was life-changing in the way that the world started to share our vision. The world started to believe with us.”

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Canada Might Be the Best Place to Learn About Ancient Earth

March 16, 2017

Parts of the Earth's original crust are still traceable there, a new study finds.

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The Statistics Canada Site Was Hacked By an Unknown Attacker

March 13, 2017

Parts of the Canada Revenue Agency website were also shut down over the same vulnerability, smack in the middle of tax season.

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The Ocean Is Rocked By ‘Rogue Waves’ More Often Than We Knew

March 10, 2017

Some of these monsters have been measured over six storeys tall.

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Trump's EPA Cuts Will Make These Bloodsucking Monsters Very Happy

March 07, 2017

The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, which fights invasive species like the sea lamprey, could see its funding slashed by 97 percent.

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Is Peeing In the Pool Really That Bad?

March 03, 2017

There are 75 litres of pee in a standard swimming pool, but don’t freak out.

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Is Peeing In the Pool Really That Bad?

March 02, 2017

There are 75 litres of pee in a standard swimming pool, but don’t freak out.

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NASA Is Stress-Testing Its Next Gigantic Kickass Space Telescope

March 02, 2017

Watch an astrophysicist’s live talk on the telescope from the Perimeter Institute.

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NASA Is Stress-Testing Its Next Gigantic Kickass Space Telescope

March 01, 2017

Watch an astrophysicist's talk on the telescope from the Perimeter Institute.

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Lydia Villa-Komaroff Has Spent Four Decades Fighting For Diversity in Science

February 28, 2017

“I was almost done with graduate school before I met scientists of colour whom I could look to as mentors.”

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‘De-Extinction’ Is a Bad Idea Because We Can’t Even Take Care of What We’ve Got

February 27, 2017

Bringing extinct animals back from the dead could hurt existing species, says a new report.

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Komodo Dragon Blood Could Save Your Life

February 27, 2017

For once, they're not trying to kill you.

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Komodo Dragon Blood Could Save Your Life

February 26, 2017

For once, they're not trying to kill you.

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Komodo Dragon Blood Could Save Your Life

February 26, 2017

For once, they're not trying to kill you.

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The Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement Has Come to Canadian Universities

February 21, 2017

Université Laval in Quebec is the first to say no to fossil fuel investments.

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NASA Filmed Water Escaping Down Giant Cracks in the Greenland Ice Sheet

February 17, 2017

It's a beautiful but scary sight, as this water will push sea levels higher.

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A Fin Whale's Weird 'Stretchy Nerves' Mean It Could Eat a Schoolbus For Lunch

February 16, 2017

In order to feed, these whales need to open their mouths really, really wide.

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Supermassive Black Holes Don’t Just Destroy Stars—They Help Form New Ones

February 14, 2017

Black holes regulate the galaxies around them.

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Cell Death Might Be Reversible, and Scientists Are Trying to Find Out Why

February 12, 2017

It tells us something important about cancer.

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Cell Death Might Be Reversible, and Scientists Are Trying to Find Out Why

February 12, 2017

It tells us something important about cancer.

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How One Fish Uses Sneak Attacks to Divebomb Potential Mates

February 10, 2017

It's one of the first times that scientists have filmed “sneaking” in the wild.

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Why the Higgs Boson Found at the Large Hadron Collider Could Be an ‘Impostor’

February 07, 2017

An Iowa physicist intends to find out.

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Why the Higgs Boson Found at the Large Hadron Collider Could Be an ‘Impostor’

February 07, 2017

An Iowa physicist intends to find out.

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Why Solar Storms Could Be Killing Whales and Dolphins

February 03, 2017

Solar storms mess with the Earth’s magnetic fields, which could hurt some animals' sense of navigation.

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Scientists in Canada Are Organizing a Boycott Against US Conferences

February 02, 2017

“If one of us can’t go, we don’t go at all.”

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Trump’s Travel Ban Disrupts Meeting of ICANN, the Internet's Governing Body

January 30, 2017

At least two Iranian-born researchers are being blocked from crucial meetings.

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The Expansion of the Universe Appears Faster Than We Thought

January 27, 2017

The results of a new study are close, but slightly faster than, the generally accepted rate.

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These Plankton-Like Robots Are Drifting Through the Ocean to Help Save Sea Life

January 24, 2017

The M-AUE robots may look like Minions from the movies, but they are the culmination of 20 years of hard work. Now, if only scientists could stop them from getting picked up at bars

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Watch Climate Scientists’ Heartbreaking Pleas to President Trump

January 20, 2017

This video is just as sad as it sounds.

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Your Heartbeat Could Be a Better Password Than Whatever You’re Using Now

January 19, 2017

It's another step forward in biometric verification.

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