If we follow Augustine, however, the history of Europe’s political failures is not only the history of misguided ideas, but of misplaced love. The nations of Europe rebelled against their foster-mother the Church, and abjured their loyalty to the People of God, that is, the common Christian congregation to which all the tribes of Europe [...]
Read more →In 2003, Gerald Pollack and his colleagues at the University of Washington, Seattle, discovered a process known as the “particle-exclusion phenomenon”. They found that particles dissolved in water naturally move away from a hydrophilic, or water-loving, surface, leaving pure water behind. What was really surprising was quite how far the particles would move – up [...]
Read more →Coming of the Corporate Biomass Stoves – Mass Manufacturing to Save the Day? For the last year or three there has been a huge amount of activity in what I call “corporate stoving” – it is not as if corporations of one kind or another have not always had wares for sale (certainly in the [...]
Read more →We work the land we can never own Someday we’ll reap what we have sown I don’t look east I don’t look west I don’t understand their accent If it’s not soldiers it’s foreign debt But they haven’t won this one yet Soon from the fields will come fire To cleanse the lies from all [...]
Read more →it’s not hard to see the details of the plan arching off into the hyperbolic distance fractal repercussions of every cut thread i think i saw you again this path we call progress infinite goals semantic, memetic, genetic in being born we are reaching for infinity profusion, duration space and time the life of the [...]
Read more →A coalition of gurus has issued an ultimatum to India’s fragile Government: purify the chronically polluted Ganges, the river revered by Hindus, or face protests and political ruin. Ganga Raksha Manch, a newly formed alliance of celebrity holy men, is demanding urgent action to cleanse the holy waterway, which has become a noxious cocktail of [...]
Read more →Another good one from Jonathan – Youtube anthropology. It’s an excellent talk. From the first few minutes * youtube adds 9,000 hours of content every 24 hours * equivalent to 400 full TV channels That sort of put things into perspective for me, and it just keeps going.
Read more →If you want to change the world, get serious, get educated, and get to work. Pick a problem, whether it’s water quality or organic agriculture, and get good and educated. A lot you can get online – start with TED talks for an overview, then progress to UN reports and similar documents. It might take [...]
Read more →Ride are also sublime. (audio’s quiet on this one) Underworld also do fabulous things. Great stuff indeed. I wonder who fills this niche for folks who’re turning those critical ages today?
Read more →The next thing I want to see done, and alas this is going to take a government’s backing, is global survival mapping. Here’s what that looks like. For each square mile of the earth’s surface, I want to know seven things. * what’s the 50 year trend in death by violence and are there immanent [...]
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