Monthly Archives: November 2018

President Trump is no mere entertainer or buffoon, as many want to believe. Instead, he is carefully, skillfully, and consistently speaking directly to his hardline nationalist supporters in their exact language, making their tropes and memes his own. Source: How … Continue reading →

In the North Pacific, the flow of warmer water is clearly visible (see image right, bottom left circle). In the North Atlantic, huge amounts of heat are moving into the Arctic Ocean (top right circle). At some spots, heat that … Continue reading →

[ Will global biodiversity collapse in 2019? ] A recent study found upper heat tolerance limits in plants of 23.7°C. This temperature is about 10°C higher than the temperature in the year 1750. Last time temperatures that high were reached … Continue reading →

Antibiotic resistance has spread around the world – so much so that even penguins living near Antarctic research bases have resistant bacteria in their gut Source: Antibiotic resistance genes are showing up in Antarctic penguins

Ethan Kuperberg writes a humorous set of responses from a therapist in the course of societal collapse. Source: My Therapist Responds

How’s this for eyebrow-raising? In London, for the last year and a half, a team of lawyers, cryptographers, software engineers, and/or former military consultants have been brewing a bizarre and/or brilliant plan for a bridge between the blockchain and the … Continue reading →

A resonance theory of consciousness suggests that the way all matter vibrates, and the tendency for those vibrations to sync up, might be a way to answer the so-called ‘hard problem’ of consciousness. Source: Could Consciousness All Come Down to … Continue reading →

Researchers at the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey have come up with an unexpected way to produce electricity without using fossil fuels: A mushroom covered with bacteria. The “bionic mushroom” was announced in the journal Nano Letters and … Continue reading →