Yesterday, we started a series of excerpts from an important book by Howard Bloom. Reposted from Telepolis. Howard Bloom My sixteen years of interdisciplinary work seem to demonstrate something very […]
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The following is an excerpt from an important book by Howard Bloom. It is reposted from Telepolis. Howard Bloom A past issue of Telepolis carried a chapter from Peter Russell’s book, The […]
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All student pilots are taught that one of the dangers of flying small planes is to fail to accept the possibility that you might be lost. The rule is know by […]
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Reposted from EDGE. E. O. Wilson, Ph.D. The sociobiology wars that began in the ’70s are over. The biological approach has prevailed. Yet, I totally misjudged the ignorance of the […]
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The following is a synopsis of an important new book: The Party’s Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies. You can also read an excerpt from the book: […]
Continue readingMemes, Fact or Science Fiction?
Timothy Wilken Recently, the concept of memes has been presented here. Recall synergic scientist N. Arthur Coulter‘s warning that we were caught in THE MACHINE. Held there by powerful protodynes and sociodynes. A protodyne is a strong […]
Continue readingA Time for NonViolence?
Reposted from Yes! Magazine. Michael N. Nagler Anyone who has seen Bowling for Columbine will recall the scene when Michael Moore is interviewing James Nichols, whose younger brother is in […]
Continue readingThank You For Complaining!
Previously, I have written: As a young father, I wanted to do the best job of parenting I could. With the birth of our first daughter in 1980, I began reading […]
Continue readingThe Climate CRISIS: Seeking a Solution
Andrew McKillop warned us last week that we must soon deal with the fossil fuel depletion — global warming crisis. You can read more from McKillop here. … But what are we to […]
Continue readingThe Mechanism of Knowledge Storage
Dirk Laureyssens The storage of knowledge is one of the mysteries in science. Knowledge and consciousness are some of the most important ‘phenomena’ in understanding life. So what’s the […]
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