Posts Tagged ‘Environment’
Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke extradition entangles local and international law
US request gives Jamaica’s prime minister chance to reclaim control of Tivoli and other lawless Kingston communities.
From The Guardian by Maxine Williams
Since August 2009, the extradition request for one man has spiralled Jamaica into a nightmare which has claimed dozens of lives, injured just...
June 3rd, 2010 | Drug Policy | Read More
Botticelli’s love drug
A new discovery suggests that Botticelli’s masterpiece Venus and Mars shows the effects of a hallucinogenic plant – but is the real drug the painting itself?
From the Guardian by Jonathan Jones
The Florentine Renaissance weaver of floral fantasies Sandro Botticelli is a magical artist. Just to...
June 1st, 2010 | Arts | Read More
The First Synthetic Life Form
Craig Venter and his team have built the genome of a bacterium from scratch and incorporated it into a cell to make what they call the world’s first synthetic life form
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May 21st, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More
The World Peace Conference
UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MOTHER EARTH
World People’s Conference on Climate
Change and the Rights of Mother Earth
Cochabamba, Bolivia, April 19 to 22, 2010
http://pwccc.wordpress.com/
Working Group 3: draft February 2010
Preamble
We, the peoples of Earth:
gratefully acknowledging...
April 30th, 2010 | Environment | Read More
The most isolated tribe in the world?
In the days after the cataclysmic tsunami of 2004, as the full scale of the destruction and horror wreaked upon the islands of the Indian Ocean became apparent, the fate of the tribal peoples of the Andaman Islands remained a mystery.
It seemed inconceivable, above all, that the Sentinelese islanders...
March 22nd, 2010 | Evolution | Read More
10,000 Hours to Shine
Malcolm Gladwell says that if you want to shine, put in 10,000 hours
The search for success has spawned a motivational industry worth millions of pounds and libraries full of self-improvement books.
From the Times Online by Steven Swinford
It is practice, however, that makes perfect, according to the...
March 19th, 2010 | Big Ideas | Read More
Neanderthals bid for Human Status
NEANDERTHALS as innovators? That the concept seems amusing goes to show how our sister species has become the butt of our jokes. Yet in the Middle Palaeolithic, some 300,000 years ago, innovation is what the Neanderthals were up to.
From NewScientist, by Rowan Hooper
This period is usually regarded...
February 25th, 2010 | Evolution | Read More
Psychedelics and Species Connectedness
Evidence suggests that at the very least the consumption of psychedelic substances leads to an increased concern for Nature and ecological issues. On one level we can understand that this may be due to a basic appreciation of place and aesthetics that accompanies the increased sensory experience, or...
February 8th, 2010 | Extended Mind | Read More
Is Darwin’s ‘Survival of the Fittest’ theory going Extinct?
READERS in search of literature about Darwin or Darwinism will have no
trouble finding it. Recent milestone anniversaries of Darwin’s birth
and of the publication of On the Origin of Species have prompted a
plethora of material, so authors thinking of adding another volume had
better have a good...
February 8th, 2010 | Evolution | Read More
The Shaman’s Renaissance
A new religion is spreading to Britain – its central sacrament the consumption of a hallucinogenic Class A drug. Here’s a report from the faith’s heartland in the rainforests of the Amazon
I am deep in the Amazon rainforest, anxiously losing my mind as the world begins to disintegrate....
February 1st, 2010 | Spirituality | Read More
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Did the ingredients for Life came from Space?
July 28, 2010 13:07
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Jobs, Taxes and Crime: Keys to California’s Pot Vote
July 28, 2010 13:07
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A Brainwaving Computer
July 28, 2010 12:07
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Genetically Modified Animals
July 28, 2010 11:07
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Cooking, Fire and Human Evolution
July 26, 2010 14:07
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schobiz: Liz O’Neill, of the Vegetarian Society, said: ‘We’ve always known that vegetarianism is an intelligent, compassion...
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Chip Steinmetz: Casey's diatribe reminds of this recent Wired article describing the founder of AA, Bill Wilson, possibly having his spi...
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String: This is an interesting article, having returned to semi-vegetarianism about four years back (I do eat fish). I have been...
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David Luke: Wow, Shermer, 'still' thinks we are robots... we have "hard wired" survival skills and a belief "engine" in our brains....
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alchemistoxford: Reading this excellent meditation on Conan Doyle and Holmes made my morning....
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