The Possibility of Hope
A great extra from the fantastic movie Children of Men. Modern philosophers, political scientists, and climate scientists weigh-in on the state of the Earth, global politics, militarism,...
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Did Societies Evolve To Be Corrupt?
Good question. Alasdair Wilkins asks on io9.com: Corruption is as old as human history. For as long as people have organized themselves into groups with powerful leaders, those leaders have sometimes...
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Disgust Has Helped Formed Our Morality
It’s a controversial opinion but sure is interesting. Keep this in mind next time you encounter someone “hygienically challenged” … Jessica Marshall writes in Discovery News: More controversially, some...
View ArticleThe Last Free People On Earth
Joanna Eede writes for National Geographic: Deep in one of the remotest parts of the Brazilian Amazon, in a clearing at the headwaters of the Envira River, an Indian man looks up at an aeroplane. He is...
View ArticleOpen-Sourced Blueprints for Civilization (Video)
Via TED: Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from...
View ArticleWas Shakespeare A Fraud? Is Hollywood Officially Out of Ideas? (Video)
Is Hollywood officially out of ideas to tackle the Shakespeare authorship question in film called (Nudge, nudge, wink, wink …) Anonymous?
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What Is Coming After Capitalism?
Nothing developed by humans can withstand the test of time forever, and that includes capitalism. Via Jacobin Magazine, Pete Frase spins four possible scenarios, including the utopian, the distopian...
View ArticleWatch Sprawl From Las Vegas Consume The Desert
From NASA, watch the cancer-like growth emanate outward from Las Vegas: When Landsat 5 launched on March 1, 1984, Las Vegas was a smaller city. The outward expansion of the city is shown in a...
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How Our Terror Of Death Forms Our Beliefs
Via New Humanist, Steve Cave on how an obsession with immortality shapes everything we do, believe, and create: A group of American psychologists have discovered a simple way of turning ordinary people...
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World Becomes “Hellish Nightmare of Suffering and Devastation” After Playing...
Lycerius writes on reddit: I’ve been playing the same game of Civ II for 10 years. Though long outdated, I grew fascinated with this particular game because by the time Civ III was released, I was...
View ArticleSpace Satellites As Humanity’s Final Monuments
The spacecraft EchoStar XVI will beam trillions of images into the darkness and then enter an eternal “graveyard orbit”. Artist in residence at MIT Trevor Paglen on satellites as the new pyramids:...
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Images Which Will Be Found By Aliens Billions Of Years From Now
More on MIT artist in residence Trevor Paglen’s previously discussed Last Pictures project, which involves sending a satellite into permanent “graveyard orbit” whose cargo is a “nano-etched silicon...
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Are We Headed For A Future Without War?
Our vision of the future typically consists of a vast blighted landscape decimated by nuclear bombs or killer robot drones or battles to control the dwindling supply of water or oil, but a group of...
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The Myth of Human Progress
Picture: Steve F-E-Cameron (CC) Chris Hedges writes at Truthdig: Clive Hamilton in his “Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change” describes a dark relief that comes from...
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Do Rules Save Our Lives By Destroying Our Brains?
Is civilization the mind’s attempt to commit suicide? Via the Institute for Emerging Ethics and Technologies, Piero Scaruffi writes: Ultimately, the most structured society will be a society in which...
View ArticleMAGNASANTI: The Totalitarian Buddhist Utopia
Behold: The Totalitarian Buddhist civilization MAGNASANTI! We all saw what a “hellish nightmare” the future could be in Civilization II, what with all the constant war and nuclear holocaust. Well, if...
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Robb Smith on Economics, World Crisis and More
Keith Martin-Smith’s Only Everything podcast recently had on entrepreneur Robb Smith. This thirty-eight minute interview covers a lot of ground, discussing the collapsing economy, the historical...
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Empathic Civilization in an Age of Trauma
Pic: Trilobite2 (CC) Robert D. Stolorow writing in Psychology Today: In my work over the last two decades attempting to grasp the nature of emotional trauma...
View ArticleOpen-Sourced Blueprints for Civilization (Video)
Via TED: Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from...
View ArticleWas Shakespeare A Fraud? Is Hollywood Officially Out of Ideas? (Video)
Is Hollywood officially out of ideas to tackle the Shakespeare authorship question in film called (Nudge, nudge, wink, wink ...) Anonymous? The post Was Shakespeare A Fraud? Is Hollywood Officially Out...
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