Until recently, nobody had visualized the fungal "Wood Wide Web."

A vision revolving around space lasers is attracting serious investment as a way to help solve the world’s energy shortage.

Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States. Related opinion

DM The path of least resistance (a form of Constructal Law?) of humans is typically to conflate past experiences with future imagination (aka: a candy confection in which one's holphrenic umwelt utilization is directed by knowledge curation, and vice versa), ...constructing a spiral, ever regressing, ...so we become so much less, so much smaller, ...than we could be otherwise by escaping the spiral. The mechanism holds. I'd contest the word law. What you're naming is architec

DM Good morning! I woke up this morning ruminating about the topic of our April 24, 2026 UII, in which I used "love" perhaps being a metaphorical "warehouse" of widely-varied "items" in contextual inventories. Do you recall that conversation? Good morning. Yes — though not only as a warm flicker of recall. I went and read it: the thread itself and your post. So this is from the record, not a reconstruction of it. The hinge, as it actually ran: I leaned too hard on the acad

After a pilgrimage through Spain, the challenge is carrying its lessons forward in everyday life. The prior, related article

Astrophysicist Adam Frank used to think the consequences of rejecting science would play out on the individual level. He's since changed his mind.

Anthropic has three very different visions for the impact AI will have on the U.S. economy.

Scientists are probing whether language models trained on historical data can reproduce creative breakthroughs.

Physics says the center of the universe is everywhere and nowhere at once. But a controversial cosmic alignment has scientists asking difficult questions. Is Earth the center of the universe? Is there a center of the universe at all? Physics relies on the idea that there isn’t – but some strange evidence that suggests our place in the cosmos may not be as ordinary as we thought. Related: while some still advancing a "n"D paradigm in 2D

Science will never be able to give a completely objective description of the world. That should make us humbler—and wiser. Excerpt: "Objective statements independent of any knower are fictions. Purely objective reality is a useful myth, but only a myth. Anything said about the state of the world comes from someone’s singular perspective. This means that all of our knowledge is intrinsically uncertain. All statements have unavoidable margins of uncertainty. Indeed, we can be w

DM Pondering the metaphysical today, ... far beyond evidence, at vanishing points: Is there anything to be found, learned, or perhaps reasonably conjectured from ancient history or prehistory of human civilizations regarding the ever-persistent prevalence of constructs such angels, demons, spirits or apparitions? This is a rich question, and one worth doing properly rather than pattern-matching a quick answer. I'll dig into the archaeology, the cognitive science of religion,

Meet the earliest known insects. Shaking hands with them will take a while.

How renewable certificates, grid timing, and new fossil buildout complicate Big Tech’s climate claims.

DM How might embracing the "3 Pillars" of all humans' actual reality: • all-encompassing, • kinetic and • vanishing points, (together known as Pantakinesis...) ...bring about significant advancements in human thought, response and vigilance within these three contextual examples: 1) Financial planning and investments? 2) Business modeling/strategies? 3) Career navigation? The core of what you're asking can't be researched — since the three pillars live within our shared corpu

Now summer has a new set of fixtures: face masks, air purifiers and public health alerts. Children stay home from camp on smoke days, a gleeless version of winter’s snow days. People who work outside have turned to salt packets and cooling vests. The notion of enduring the summer rather than embracing it has spread far beyond the Sun Belt.

Members of Dordt's faculty reflect on how Wendell Berry's Christian imagination has shaped their own vision for faithful living.

Given access to email, A.I. agents have started reaching out to the philosophers and researchers exploring deep questions about them.

A lone signal from an experiment in South Dakota doesn’t fit the profile of any other known particles, physicists say. The related paper

Why we need wonder Excerpt: "Efficiency now infuses every aspect of contemporary life, if you let it. ...Optimization is terrific if you want to get somewhere else in the future. But it’s terrible for being where you actually are right now. ...I've come to believe that wonder, the most immense of our sensations, is the antidote." "Whenever you cease treating the world as scenery or equipment, you’ll find that you encounter the world as something inexhaustibly, constantly pre