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- In a Remote Part of Utah, Life Alone in a Hangar (2012) http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/garden/in-a-remote-part-of-utah-life-alone-in-a-hangar.html 39 comments
- Alone Across the Arctic (2022) - Writer Adam Shoalts traverses 2500 miles in remote northern Canada | [1:26:47] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U1-GeCFWJM 2 comments documentaries
- Online Schools Are Here to Stay, Even After the Pandemic: Some families have come to prefer stand-alone virtual schools and districts are rushing to accommodate them — though questions about remote learning persist. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/11/technology/remote-learning-online-school.html 16 comments technology
- Into the Woods: "At the age of 20, Christopher Knight parked his car on a remote trail in Maine and walked away. He had no plan. He had no tools. And he survived alone for 27 years." https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/mar/15/stranger-in-the-woods-christopher-knight-hermit-maine 7 comments indepthstories
- World’s oldest forts upend idea that farming alone led to complex societies: In remote Siberia, hunter-gatherers built complex defenses 8000 years ago https://www.science.org/content/article/world-s-oldest-forts-upend-idea-farming-alone-led-complex-societies 40 comments anthropology
- Study: Gender remains a powerful force in organizing domestic work despite greater flexibility that working remotely allows. When mothers worked from home alone, they were more likely than mothers in dual remote-worker couples to have increased the housework time, absorbing additional domestic work. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08912432211001301 4 comments science
- The water scarcity issue affects nearly 1 billion people in Africa alone. Designer Arturo Vittori says his invention can provide remote villages all over the world with more than 25 gallons of clean drinking water per day by pulling it right out of the air. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-tower-pulls-drinking-water-out-of-thin-air-180950399/ 140 comments technology
- If I'm alone in a remote battlefield (or whatever) with an open wound, do I stand a better chance at avoiding infection by introducing maggots? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggot_therapy 10 comments askscience