Michal Havel is the mother of a son who was murdered by Hamas on October 7th, 2023. Her son’s name was Laor Avramov. He was just 20 years old. He […]
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Serious Times
Timothy Wilken writes: CRISIS – The Chinese word for crisis is written by joining two ideograms together. These two ideograms, when joined together, make up the Chinese word crisis. When […]
Continue readingMicrocephaly: ‘It’s not the end of the world’
BBC Medical Science – Microcephaly has come to prominence since the news reports of the Zika virus being linked to birth defects. The condition causes the head to be small in […]
Continue readingInequality and Modernization
Foreign Affairs – Ronald Inglehart writes: During the past century, economic inequality in the developed world has traced a massive U-shaped curve—starting high, curving downward, then curving sharply back up […]
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Timothy Wilken The animals have perceptual intelligence. It is perceptual intelligence that allows the animals to survive in the fight or flight world of adversarity and to adapt to their […]
Continue readingThe Re-Creation
This mornings essay is from a long time reader and careful thinker. Donald B. Halcom In the next sixty years the entire world will be forced to re-create itself. This […]
Continue readingEverything Won’t Be Alright
Ashvin Pandurangi The Automatic Earth Looking around at those… around me – family, friends, acquaintances and random faces in the crowd of apathy – the level of complacency is so […]
Continue readingTime for a Synergic Future
P2P Foundation—Timothy Wilken, MD writes: “Market is unsustainable, inefficient, and enormously destructive to the biosphere. And, it is failing. There will be no solutions from Big government or from Big […]
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