Even now, even in shallow waters, the sea continues to surprise us with new wonders (many of them rich in “living fossils” like the chambered nautilus and various sharks). Reefs are themselves fabulous living examples of multitudinous pace layers, not unlike the structural layers of a house Stewart Brand details in How Buildings Learn—only these […]
You can now watch the European Bildung Network fireside chat from October 29, 2021 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjAwoBxzJk8 Guests are: Sandrine Dixson-Declève (co-president, the Club of Rome), Minna Salami (MsAfropolitan), and Klaas van Egmond (professor of geoscience). Lene Rachel Andersen from Nordic Bildung hosts the conversation.
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You can now watch the European Bildung Network fireside chat from November 12, 2021: What kind of bildung do we need to handle exponential technologies? on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl5fkz0Q5Ak Guests are: Pernille Tranberg (DK) DataEthics.eu, Anders Wijkman (SE) former MEP, and Azeem Azhar (UK) exponentialreview.co. You can also watch the video from October 29, 2021: What
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You can now watch the European Bildung Network fireside chat from November 12, 2021: What kind of bildung do we need to handle exponential technologies? on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl5fkz0Q5Ak Guests are: Pernille Tranberg (DK) DataEthics.eu, Anders Wijkman (SE) former MEP, and Azeem Azhar (UK) exponentialreview.co. You can also watch the video from October 29, 2021: What
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Lene Rachel Andersen’s and Tomas Björkman’s book The Nordic Secret, which is a huge part of our intellectual foundation, is now out in Germany with the German title: Das Skandinavische Geheimnis. This prompted the German publisher, Tom Amarque, to invite Lene and Tomas to his video series to talk about Nordic bildung and Metamodernity; you
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Once again on the theme of how the technological/cultural pace layer’s accelerating decoupling from the ecological pace layer in which we evolved poses serious risks to the integrity of both the human body and biosphere: When daycare workers in Finland rolled out a lawn, planted forest undergrowth such as dwarf heather and blueberries, and allowed
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Inside Finland’s Olkiluoto nuclear waste repository, 1,500 feet underground. Photo Credit: Peter Guenzel With half-lives ranging from 30 to 24,000, or even 16 million years, the radioactive elements in nuclear waste defy our typical operating time frames. The questions around nuclear waste storage — how to keep it safe from those who might wish to weaponize it, where
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The Institute for Cultural Evolution does not officially endorse candidates for public office. But as the president of this organization I feel obligated to express my personal political opinion on the upcoming election. While I acknowledge that there are many people of good sense and good faith who continue to support Donald Trump, I cannot
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