We continue from our earlier series on Understanding Nature: See: 1) The Macroscope, 2) Looking through the Macroscope, 3) System Science, 4) Energy & Survival, 5) Information and the Interactive […]
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Listening to the People
Reposted from The Nation. William Greider Since McDonald’s is a global icon of cultural imperialism and the target for numerous other social complaints, it’s a little awkward to celebrate the […]
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We continue from our earlier series on Understanding Nature: See: 1) The Macroscope, 2) Looking through the Macroscope, 3) System Science, 4) Energy & Survival. Joël de Rosnay Information, too, […]
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We continue from our earlier series on Understanding Nature: See: 1) The Macroscope, 2) Looking through the Macroscope, 3) System Science. Joël de Rosnay The energy crisis has revealed the […]
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I am currently reviewing the literature in Preventative and Behavioral Medicine. The following 1993 article is well worth a read. Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. Over the course of fourteen years, more […]
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Reposted from Orion. Wendell Berry LET US BEGIN BY ASSUMING what appears to be true: that the so-called “environmental crisis” is now pretty well established as a fact of our […]
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I strongly recommend Darwin’s Blind Spot, a new book on the importance of cooperation in evolution. This morning, we feature a description from the publisher and an excerpt from the book. […]
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Recently, two popular scientists have written in support of atheism. They are Richard Dawkins, FRS, Charles Simonyi professor of the public understanding of science at Oxford University, and Daniel C. Dennett, professor of […]
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We continue from our earlier series: See: 1) The Macroscope, 2) Looking through the Macroscope. J. de Rosnay The fundamental concepts that recur most often in the biological, ecological, and […]
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L. W. Nicholson At this time in our history, the human species is finding it ever more difficult to maintain some degree of synchronization between the two worlds in which […]
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