The following excerpt from Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity’s Future is reposted from Awakening Earth. Duane Elgin The price of anything is the amount of […]
Continue readingThe Societal Implications of Nanotechnology
This testimony was presented April 9, 2003 at the Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives Hearing to examine the societal implications of nanotechnology and consider H.R. 766, The Nanotechnology […]
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Heuristics is “a method of problem solving using exploration and trial and error methods”. A heuristic (pronounced hyu-RIS-tik and from the Greek “heuriskein” meaning “to discover”) is a “rule-of-thumb.” The […]
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Reposted from Awakening Earth. Duane Elgin A quiet revolution in living has been underway for the past few decades in the United States (and in a number of other “post-modern” […]
Continue readingWho’s Kidding Whom?
Is sustainable development compatible with Western Civilization? Peter Russell Sustainable Development is one of those terms that seems to have leapt into our vocabulary from nowhere. Five years ago no […]
Continue readingThe New Biology
I am currently reading Darwin’s Children. The following article by the same author is reposted from Greg Bear.com. Greg Bear The revelation that the human genome consists of about thirty thousand […]
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Reposted from Awakening Earth. Duane Elgin The first opportunity trend that could transform our impending crash into a spectacular bounce is a shift in our shared view of the universe—from […]
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Reposted from The Spunk Library. Dale Allen Pfeiffer 1. Argument– We must give up expectations but not the confidence that we can deal with any contingency. Humans only act if […]
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Reposted from ThirteenOnLine. Ellen Raider If I were to give the human species a report card as it enters the 21st century, I would give it high marks in math, […]
Continue readingWhat is good for Human Beings?
Reposted from Earth Crash Earth Spirit. Stephen Boyden According to the principle of evodeviation, when animals are exposed to life conditions which differ from those to which their species is […]
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