Category: CommUnity of Minds

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 […]

Reposted from The Yellow Times. John Brand A sort of a parable happened when I started thinking about writing this column. Stopping for a red light, I saw a homeless […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. Over the course of fourteen years, more than six thousand people have attended the stress reduction program at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. In doing so, […]