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The UN climate panel still doesn’t understand technology – and it matters

With the Sixth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) being released, it’s important to revisit the climate scenarios that are its centerpiece. These scenarios form the basis of the climate science community’s modeling and projections, which in turn affects governance and investment decisions across the world. Trillions of dollars […]

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The Failure of Multiculturalism and Its Resolution: Transculturalism

Across the world, Multiculturalism has been failing over the recent decades: conflicts, racism, discrimination, antagonism, distrust, ghetto despair, the rise of rightwing populism, riots, crime, and even ISIS as an emergent transnational vortex of discontent and violent regression. These realities are grasped differently across the political spectrum, damning or defending Multiculturalism. But none of the

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Eat Smart, Literally: 6 Science-Backed Foods to Beat Brain Fog

Scientists have long suspected that the relative abundance of specific nutrients affects cognitive processes and emotions. Research now confirms influences of dietary factors on brain function, synaptic plasticity, and mental function. Your brain is always “on.” It regulates your thoughts, movements, breathing and heartbeat — it works hard 24/7, even while you’re asleep. This means

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How Synthetic Industries Replaced Natural Sources and Transformed the World (The Pattern of Disruption, Part 3)

  When people figure out how to do something that previously only nature had done, this new technology can completely transform the possibility space for a sector while making old ways of doing things obsolete – and all in a surprisingly short period of time. While the time can be very long between when an

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How to go vegan without really going vegan: precision fermentation, cellular agriculture and the disruption of food

  Last year, the folks at Our World in Data published an article and some graphics about how human diets affect land use. The conclusion, as you can see on their chart below, is that if everyone in the world ate a vegan diet – one without any animal products at all – global agricultural

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Combating the Meta-Crisis With Emergent Communities and Radical Hope – An Interview With Nick Farr

What follows is a transcript for the podcast HomeGrownHumans – Nick Farr – Preparedness – Hosted by Jamie Wheal. Topics within the interview include the following: The Burners Without Borders Story The Concerning Lack of Skill Sets in Middle America Why True Burners Instinctively Seek the Infinite Game The Long Disaster Essay The Unique Sense

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Acceptance, not Tolerance, Is the Elixir of a Good Society

Growing the inner capacity to accept things-as-they-are may be the best investment ever for society—and no, cultivating acceptance doesn’t lead to complacency in the face of injustice. Amidst the apparent turmoil of ongoing pandemics, climate disasters, and geo-political slides into what amounts to nothing less than a new Cold War, the world has slowly and quietly

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Is Metamodernism the Last Stage of Development? Chaos Theory Might Hold the Answer

Chaos Is Not A Ladder—But the Ladder Leads to Chaos. Yes, Human History Has Developed Through Discernable Stages —But That May Be Changing—If So, Future (Protopian) Society Must Be “Designed for Chaos” How utterly and awfully wrong they are, David Graeber and David Wengrow, in their recent book, The Dawn of Everything—which is widely (and wildly) hailed as nothing

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