Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.

Beijing’s massive manufacturing investments have driven the costs of clean energy down

We’ve known intuitively for centuries that spending time in nature can give us a boost. But it’s only recently that scientists have begun to identify exactly what it is about the outdoors that has such a powerful effect on our mood and our minds. This week, psychologist Marc Berman explores how spending time in nature can actually undo some of the harmful effects of our modern lives.

Where climate forces are fueling more dangerous flooding

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Mapmakers of the 19th century sought to render both the natural and political worlds with clarity and beauty. Somewhat related

DM Good day to you! Today I'm pondering (while scheduling my flu and covid vaccines) as to whether our seemingly distinctly separate, yet interrelated, innate and adaptive immune "systems" are different holophrens, or are of one more complex or "compound" phenomenon? Your thoughts? (Refer to our many past conversation on the Universal Holophren™ with its 4 primary domains and 13 total contexts.) What a delightful convergence of ideas - contemplating immunity while caring for

In a memo, the Microsoft co-founder warned against climate alarmism and appears to have shifted some of his views about climate change.

Tighter regulations on cell phones, less on nuclear plants?

It’s time to write the human genome, argues microbiologist Andrew Hessel.

DM Are you familiar with "terror management theory," and if so, please provide your understandings and perspectives. I am indeed familiar with terror management theory, and I'd be happy to walk you through this fascinating psychological framework. Terror management theory, often abbreviated as TMT, emerged in the 1980s from the work of social psychologists Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, and Tom Pyszczynski. The theory attempts to answer a profound question: how do human bei

In a new book, Wharton's Jerry Wind and his co-authors argue that creativity is a learnable skill that becomes more powerful when paired with intelligent machines.

DM Upon a walk in a forest today, I was considering the diversity of tree leaf shapes, and how each species of tree seems to maintain these shapes. I realize there are many reasons beyond my imagination for this persistent variation. However, I surmise there may be (at least) two primary factors: optimal functional efficiency and optimal environmental durability. So considering the southeastern U.S. forest in which I was walking (which appeared to be relatively mature), and u

Some of the incredible winning and honored images from this year’s photomicrography competition, selected from nearly 2,000 entries. See if you can guess what each image is showing before reading the caption.

DM Good morning Claude. How might theTeilhard de Chardin's construct of a "Noosphere" relate, correlate, or have relevance to our recent conversations, and the many factors thereof (such as: Pantakinesis™, the Universal Holophren™ and the fractals thereof, Non-local consciousness discoveries and their potential relationships to post-death consciousness, Fitness=Truth™ and definition of truths as being personal, etc.). Good morning! What a rich synthesis question! Having revie

Janus Program fulfills a Trump order to start powering military installations with state-of-the-art nuclear technology Distantly related: See Advanced Weaponry the U.S. Is Deploying to the Caribbean

Canada, U.K. and European Union back off electric-vehicle targets as economic reality sets in and even China shows cracks Related Quick Summary of first link above: General Motors announced a $1.6 billion charge because of sinking electric-vehicle sales, attributing the shift to reduced government subsidies. Canada paused its electric-vehicle sales mandate for next year, and the EU is rethinking its 2035 emissions target for cars. AlixPartners now forecasts electric vehicles

The bank says the U.S. will struggle to meet growing power demands—and stay energy-independent—without renewable projects spurned by the administration. Related: the next big things in energy

My recent trip to China shows the incredible material progress for its citizens and contributions to the world's clean energy future, but also the dangers of their authoritarian system in The AI Age

DM So, it seems by combining our last conversation (re: "non-local consciousness," and the role GABA plays in consciousness "restraint" during life), ..and the content of our other related past conversations, ... we may have arrived at plausible, even logical, hypothesis: That is, the end of life (aka: physical death) may be but a Vanishing Point "Portal" for consciousness to enter a new dimension(s?) of Pantakinesis™ . I do realize we've little or no solid empirical or evid