By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 16 Oct 20
Ecological inequality includes such things as access to fresh air, clean water, lush vegetation, beautiful scenery, healthy and non-toxic food, clean living spaces—even sunlight. In many large Chinese cities, a lot of people hardly see the sun, and millions die as a result of air pollution. Many people around the world work in noisy, physically dangerous, dirty and toxic environments, like children in West Africa working on huge piles of waste from electronics, slowly poisoning themselves to retrieve valuable metals and minerals. The brunt of harm caused by environmental degradation is carried very unevenly by populations. You see this in
Ecological inequality includes such things as access to fresh air, clean water, lush vegetation, beautiful scenery, healthy and non-toxic food, clean living spaces—even sunlight. In many large Chinese cities, a lot of people hardly see the sun, and millions die as a result of air pollution. Many people around the world work in noisy, physically dangerous, dirty and toxic environments,
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 7 Oct 20
Race, to all people who use the term correctly, is a matter of a few easily observed physiological characteristics: the color of your skin, the texture of your hair, and the shape of a few extremities . . . But there is no scientific correlation between those physical features and behavior. The only correlation comes from the conditioning of the consciousness—and that is not the same thing as race. Consciousness and race just don’t correlate. —Albert Murray Introduction The meme of race is like a dead virus, brought alive by the vulnerability of those it feeds upon, attacking the immune
Race, to all people who use the term correctly, is a matter of a few easily observed physiological characteristics: the color of your skin, the texture of your hair, and the shape of a few extremities . . . But there is no scientific correlation between those physical features and behavior. The only correlation comes from the conditioning of the
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 4 Oct 20
The annual meeting at the Club of Rome also has a Global Youth Summit, this year it is via Zoom in three “continental time zones:” East Asia, Afri-Euro-Middle-East, and the Americas. Each meeting is 3 hours and 80-90 students participate in each one of them. At the Afri-Euro-Middle-East Summit, I just presented the Bildung Rose, and the slides are available here: http://bildungrose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/TheBildungRose_GlobalYouthSummit_presentation.pdf
The annual meeting at the Club of Rome also has a Global Youth Summit, this year it is via Zoom in three “continental time zones:” East Asia, Afri-Euro-Middle-East, and the Americas. Each meeting is 3 hours and 80-90 students participate in each one of them. At the Afri-Euro-Middle-East Summit, I just presented the Bildung Rose, and the slides are available
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 30 Sep 20
How do chocolate goodies keep their sheen and creamy texture, even while sitting on store shelves? Increasingly, the answer is palm oil (and palm kernel oil), the world’s most widely consumed vegetable oil[1]. In our report Rethinking Food and Agriculture 2020-2030, we discuss how precision fermentation (PF) is rapidly improving in cost and capabilities so that it could be used to make any protein at speed and scale. But PF is not just about protein, in fact a wide variety of molecules can be made via PF, including those found in palm oil. Store-bought chocolate cream balls, which the author
How do chocolate goodies keep their sheen and creamy texture, even while sitting on store shelves? Increasingly, the answer is palm oil (and palm kernel oil), the world’s most widely consumed vegetable oil[1]. In our report Rethinking Food and Agriculture 2020-2030, we discuss how precision fermentation (PF) is rapidly improving in cost and capabilities so that it could be used
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 27 Sep 20
This Friday, I was a guest speaker at the Humanistic Management Professionals Lunch and Learn, and you can watch the result here: http://humanisticmanagement.international/using-the-bildung-rose-as-a-strategic-diagnostic-tool/ or here:
This Friday, I was a guest speaker at the Humanistic Management Professionals Lunch and Learn, and you can watch the result here: http://humanisticmanagement.international/using-the-bildung-rose-as-a-strategic-diagnostic-tool/ or here:
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 26 Sep 20
It has been shown in a growing body of recent research that social exclusion and rejection activate similar patterns in the brain as physical pain. Social exclusion is like a slap in your face. This is a real thing: You subject someone even to a small slight or rejection, and not only do they experience pain, they also become more vulnerable to such pain in the future, and their emotional state is pushed towards vengefulness and envy—even increasing the propensity towards physical aggression.[i] The following is a slightly edited extract from Hanzi Freinacht’s book ‘Nordic Ideology: A Metamodern Guide to
It has been shown in a growing body of recent research that social exclusion and rejection activate similar patterns in the brain as physical pain. Social exclusion is like a slap in your face. This is a real thing: You subject someone even to a small slight or rejection, and not only do they experience pain, they also become more
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 24 Sep 20
The Bildung Rose was first described in English in this article published by Nordic Bildung in October 2019: http://nordicbildung.org/publication/the-bildung-rose/ In June 2020, it appeared for the first time in print in English in my book Bildung: Keep Growing: http://nordicbildung.org/books/bildung/ The model itself is a lot older, though: it first appeared in Danish in my 2007 book Baade-Og Onsdag (Both-And Wednesday) — the third volume of a five volume series called Baade-Og (Both-And).; you can read more about those books here: http://www.baade-og.dk/english/. Over the years, I have presented the model in numerous keynotes and everywhere have I experienced how people almost
The Bildung Rose was first described in English in this article published by Nordic Bildung in October 2019: http://nordicbildung.org/publication/the-bildung-rose/ In June 2020, it appeared for the first time in print in English in my book Bildung: Keep Growing: http://nordicbildung.org/books/bildung/ The model itself is a lot older, though: it first appeared in Danish in my 2007 book Baade-Og Onsdag (Both-And Wednesday)
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 23 Sep 20
I’m excited to announce my upcoming online course titled: Cultural Intelligence: Transcending Race, Embracing Cosmos. Here’s a description: Our country’s current racial and cultural crises have invoked a dire need to reexamine our understanding of race and reflect on our own blind spots. I invite you to join me virtually at the Aligned Center to delve into our crisis of meaning and the meaning of crisis in his timely new nine-week series. As a culture we’re coming to understand the value of emotional intelligence in our personal lives and interpersonal relationships. In this class, I explore culture as another form of intelligence–a discipline of human values, feelings and behavior that enrich
I’m excited to announce my upcoming online course titled: Cultural Intelligence: Transcending Race, Embracing Cosmos. Here’s a description: Our country’s current racial and cultural crises have invoked a dire need to reexamine our understanding of race and reflect on our own blind spots. I invite you to join me virtually at the Aligned Center to delve into our crisis of meaning and the meaning of crisis
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 22 Sep 20
Changmiania liaoningensis, buried while sleeping by a prehistoric volcano. Image Source.Although the sensitive can feel it in all seasons, Autumn seems to thin the veil between the living and the dead. Writing from the dying cusp of summer and the longer bardo marking humankind’s uneasy passage into a new world age (a transit paradoxically defined by floating signifiers and eroded, fluid categories), it seems right to constellate a set of sleeping beauties, both extant and extinct, recently discovered and newly understood. Much like the “sleeping beauties” of forgotten scientific research, as described by Sidney Redner in his 02005 Physics Today paper
Changmiania liaoningensis, buried while sleeping by a prehistoric volcano. Image Source.Although the sensitive can feel it in all seasons, Autumn seems to thin the veil between the living and the dead. Writing from the dying cusp of summer and the longer bardo marking humankind’s uneasy passage into a new world age (a transit paradoxically defined by floating signifiers and eroded, fluid
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 17 Sep 20
According to a recent study published in Science, you can take a female rhesus monkey (or “macaque”), put her in a terrarium, then gradually add more monkeys over time, the one who was there first will then generally have the highest social status while the newcomers will have lower status—much like in Norbert Elias’ and John L. Scotson’s 1965 classical sociological study of an English small-town community, The Established and the Outsiders. The established were often, quite simply, the people who had lived in the community the longest while the newly arrived were the outsiders. The following is a slightly
According to a recent study published in Science, you can take a female rhesus monkey (or “macaque”), put her in a terrarium, then gradually add more monkeys over time, the one who was there first will then generally have the highest social status while the newcomers will have lower status—much like in Norbert Elias’ and John L. Scotson’s 1965 classical