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Here is a strange fact about coastlines: nobody can agree how long any of them actually are. Measure a coast with a long ruler and you get one number; measure the same coast with a shorter ruler that dips into every cove and inlet, and the total balloons. Mathematicians call this the coastline paradox, and…

In the flat plains of the northeastern Tanzanian district of Handeni, Ike Emoilit points to a flattened field of red earth that was once the burial place of his father, but which has since been excavated to pave the way for the construction of Africa’s longest crude oil pipeline.