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Above image depicts how humans could go extinct as early as 2020. The image was created with NASA LOTI 1880-Nov.2019 data, 0.78°C adjusted to reflect ocean air temperatures (as opposed to sea surface temperatures), to reflect higher polar temperature anomalies … Continue reading →

Nothing seems safe from plastic contamination. A new study by NSF-funded researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography suggests there could be a million times more pieces of plastic in the ocean than previously estimated. Source: Microplastics 1 million times … Continue reading →

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Greenland’s ice sheet is melting much faster than previously thought, threatening hundreds of millions of people with inundation and bringing some of the irreversible impacts of the climate emergency much closer. … Continue reading →

The impact of climate change on the world’s oceans is becoming increasingly known but new research suggests current computer models could be omitting a crucial piece of evidence when it comes to assessing the scale of ocean dead zones. Source: … Continue reading →

Scientists found the fingerprints of warming on heat waves, torrential rains and other major events in 2018 — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com Source: More and More Links Are Emerging Between Warming and Extreme Weather

Researchers have discovered jet stream patterns that could affect up to a quarter of global food production. Source: Large atmospheric waves in the jet stream present risk to global food production

With LG’s V series smartphones, the proposition is simple: connect a pair of headphones and you’re off to the races with an ESS DAC/headphone chip for some of the best portable sound in the world this side of a DAP. … Continue reading →

Bodhammer shares a report from Popular Mechanics: The U.S. Navy has jumped into the game by filing a patent for a compact fusion reactor, according to exclusive reporting by The War Zone. The success of the device, developed by researcher … Continue reading →

Physicists have proposed that a trio of particles called Higgs bosons could be responsible for the mysterious vanishing act of antimatter in the universe. Source: A Strange New Higgs Particle May Have Stolen the Antimatter from Our Universe

Published in March 2018, The Consensus Handbook summarizes research into how opponents of climate action have cast doubt on consensus, why that matters, and how we (including journalists) can respond. It provides answers to questions like these: Why has manufacturing … Continue reading →

But nobody is interested in doing anything about it. Source: The World Knows an Apocalyptic Pandemic Is Coming

For decades, physicists have been attempting to reconcile quantum mechanics, the physics of the very small, with gravity, the physics of the very large. While many academics are working on quantum gravity, they often use models that don’t consider certain … Continue reading →

( University of Chicago Press Journals ) Extreme ritual practices involving pain and suffering pose significant risks such as injury, trauma, or infection. Nonetheless, they are performed by millions of people around the world and are often culturally prescribed remedies … Continue reading →

A new study indicates that the world will experience more frequent and more extreme drought and aridity than currently experienced in the coming century, exacerbated by both climate change and land-atmosphere processes. The researchers demonstrate that concurrent soil drought and … Continue reading →

Over the past several years, microplastic particles have repeatedly been detected in sea-water, drinking water, and even in animals. But these minute particles are also transported by the atmosphere and subsequently washed out of the air, especially by snow — … Continue reading →

The U.S. military is using surveillance balloons like this one to spy on the Midwest. The U.S. military is using balloons to monitor activity across six states in the Midwest. The 25 solar-powered balloons are reportedly being used to monitor … Continue reading →

This is the most important message ever posted. Please share it widely and add your comments! (click on share in the box underneath this post) NASA data through June 2019 confirms an earlier analysis that it could be 1.85°C (or … Continue reading →

For many people in the West, Buddhism is completely divorced from its history. So many of the beliefs and rites have been stripped away that many Westerners regard it purely as a philosophy, rather than a religion. As well-intentioned as … Continue reading →

Fires are raging over Alaska. The satellite image below shows the situation on July 8, 2019. As the image below shows, carbon monoxide levels were as high as 43,443 ppb over Alaska on July 8, 2019. As the image below … Continue reading →

Theranostics is an emerging field of medicine whose name is a combination of “therapeutics” and “diagnostics.” The idea behind theranostics is to combine drugs and/or techniques to simultaneously—or sequentially—diagnose and treat medical conditions, and also monitor the response of the … Continue reading →

This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Record-breaking heat across Alaska is pushing tourists to beaches, and sending flames across the unseasonably hot, dry state. Source: What does … Continue reading →

America is under attack. By terrorists? Hardly. It surely isn’t ISIS that’s causing unprecedented floods in the Midwest , wildfires threatening 1 billion acres of land on the West coast, or the uptick of tornadoes in the South. Actually, given … Continue reading →

Malaria parasites develop faster in mosquitoes at lower temperatures than previously thought, according to researchers at Penn State and the University of Exeter. The findings suggest that even slight climate warming could increase malaria risk to hundreds of thousands, if … Continue reading →

The Deficit Hawks versus the Big Spenders. That’s how the media typically portrays budget battles in Washington. We seldom hear about how government action to tackle our country’s most urgent social and environmental problems can actually save money. Source: A … Continue reading →

A nearly 100-year-old physics model captures the essential mechanism of pattern formation and geometry of Arctic melt ponds. Source: 100-year-old physics model replicates modern Arctic ice melt

Melt extent over Greenland was well over 40% on June 12, 2019. The surface melt map that day (on the right) shows many coastal areas for which data are missing, as indicated by the grey color. As the June 13, … Continue reading →

The oldest Buddhist scrolls ever discovered were made on birch bark and spent two millennia folded in clay pots, in a cave, situated along the northern border of Afghanistan and Pakistan, and now they’re bringing team of researchers “close, very … Continue reading →

A recent forecast of the size of the ‘Dead Zone’ in the northern Gulf of Mexico for late July 2019 is that it will cover 8,717-square-miles of the bottom of the continental shelf off Louisiana and Texas. The unusually high … Continue reading →

An anonymous reader quotes a report The Weather Channel: Scientists studying climate change expected layers of permafrost in the Canadian Arctic to melt by the year 2090. Instead, it’s happening now. A new study published this week in the journal … Continue reading →

Permafrost covers 25% of the Northern Hemisphere. It is the world’s largest icebox, and its landmass is 4.5xs larger than Antarctica, 6.5xs larger than the United States. It is stuffed full of carbon locked in frozen ground accumulated over eons, … Continue reading →

Emissions of methane from the industrial sector have been vastly underestimated, researchers have found. Source: Fertilizer plants emit 100 times more methane than reported

Four times as many plastic particles turned up in the deep waters of a “clean” patch of ocean than on the surface in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com Source: The Deep Ocean Harbors a Mountain … Continue reading →

Emissions from fossil fuels and volcanoes can explain nearly all of the changes in Earth’s surface temperatures over the past 140 years, a new study has found. The research refutes the popular climate denial myth that recent global warming is … Continue reading →

What we’re witnessing is more than a climate crisis, we’re facing climate catastrophe and the outlook is grim. We’re already in the Sixth Mass Extinction event and we’re facing a potential global temperature rise of 18°C or 32.4°F by 2026 … Continue reading →

A new study finds that the loss of marsh-edge salt grasses and mangroves due to disturbances such as heavy oiling from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill doubles the rate of shoreline erosion in hard-hit marshes. Source: Dead roots double … Continue reading →

This article originally appeared on VICE Asia . Trash-covered beaches, turtles asphyxiated by fluorescent pink drinking straws, and thick gray smog—these are the kinds of images we typically associate with pollution around the world. Source: This Photographer Shows Us the … Continue reading →

Like many people who have struggled to understand why human beings are driving the sixth mass extinction event in Earth’s history, which now threatens imminent human extinction as well, over many decades I have explored the research and efforts of … Continue reading →

This piece originally appeared on Informed Comment . Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration measures atmospheric carbon dioxide at its Moana Loa observatory. You can see that on May 11 we were just about at … Continue reading →

The United Nations published a global assessment Monday detailing the impact of humans on the environment over the past five decades, and it’s not looking good. The report , by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), … Continue reading →

Carbon Dioxide Weekly CO₂ levels at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, recently reached 413.77 ppm, while – several times recently – daily average levels exceeded 414 ppm and hourly levels exceeded 415 ppm. Current CO₂ levels far exceed levels that were common … Continue reading →

Recent flooding in the Midwest has brought attention to the complex agricultural problems associated with too much rain. Data from the past three decades suggest that excessive rainfall can affect crop yield as much as excessive heat and drought. Source: … Continue reading →

This is a guest post by Hugh Handeyside , Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU National Security Project, Nathan Freed Wessler , Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, and Esha Bhandari , Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. … Continue reading →

A new study suggests that carbon dioxide regeneration may become faster in many regions of the world as the oceans warm with changing climate. This, in turn, may reduce the deep oceans’ ability to keep carbon locked up. The study … Continue reading →

Think of the dangers climate change poses to animals, and you’ll likely picture skinny polar bears or cliff-diving walruses (collective sob). But it turns out that our overheating planet is actually wreaking the most havoc on creatures out of our … Continue reading →

In as few as 25 years, climate change could shrink and dry 60-80% of Western Hemisphere cloud forests, finds a study published today. If greenhouse gas emissions continue increasing as they have been, 90% of Western Hemisphere cloud forests would … Continue reading →

Physicists have developed an amazingly simple device that allows heat to flow temporarily from a cold to a warm object without an external power supply. Intriguingly, the process initially appears to contradict the fundamental laws of physics. Source: Thermodynamic magic … Continue reading →

‘This needs to be taken more seriously than it is right now,’ says author of new study Melting permafrost in Alaska caused by rising global temperatures. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images ) by Chiara Giordano, The Independent , April 20, 2019 READERS: … Continue reading →

Ellis Rosen and Irving Ruan humorously illustrate new developments in artificial intelligence. Source: Emerging Fields in Artificial Intelligence

Global warming is starting to hit hard like there’s no tomorrow, and at current rates of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, there may not be a tomorrow, as emissions continue setting new records year-by-year, expected to hit a 62-year record in … Continue reading →

CO2 levels in the atmosphere are likely higher today than ever before in the past 3 million years. During this time, global mean temperatures never exceeded the preindustrial levels by more than 2°C. The study is based on breakthrough computer … Continue reading →

According to new research, changes similar to those after the ice age 10,000 years ago could be in store today because a warming Arctic weakens the temperature difference between the tropics and the poles. This, in turn, results in less … Continue reading →

The February 2019 temperature is in line with an earlier analysis that 2019 could be 1.85°C above preindustrial and that a rapid temperature rise may take place over the next few years, as illustrated by the image on the right. … Continue reading →

Mr. Merwin, one of the world’s most decorated poets, sang of silence and nature with an oracular voice. Later in life he became an ardent conservationist.   I met Bill at the age of 18 when he and his GF … Continue reading →

How often are we told something is bad for us, yet we continue to keep it in our lives? Sure, a little bit every now and then won’t kill you, but it’s tough to say what is a little and … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Prof Jem Bendell:
A research paper concluding that climate-induced collapse is now inevitable, was recently rejected by anonymous reviewers of an academic journal. It has been released directly by the Professor who wrote it, to promote discussion…

Quantam Magazine – Clouds currently cover about two-thirds of the planet at any moment. But computer simulations of clouds have begun to suggest that as the Earth warms, clouds become scarcer. With fewer white surfaces reflecting sunlight back to space, … Continue reading →

Synthetic nitrogen fertilisers revolutionised agriculture and fed the world’s growing population. But a century later they are depleting the soil and poisoning the environment. Time to change policies. – 2019/03 / article Source: Nitrogen, the miracle that destroys

A catastrophe of unimaginable proportions is unfolding. Life is disappearing from Earth and all life could be gone within one decade. Study after study is showing the size of the threat, yet many people seem out to hide what we’re … Continue reading →

A new study questions the reliability of how sea-level rise in low-lying coastal areas such as southern Louisiana is measured and suggests that the current method underestimates the severity of the problem. Source: Seas may be rising faster than thought

The rise in temperatures stemming from climate change may increase the number of US infants born with congenital heart defects between 2025 and 2035. The greatest percentage increases in the number of congenital heart defects are predicted in the Midwest, … Continue reading →

Ocean warming and an infectious wasting disease has devastated populations of large sunflower sea stars once abundant along the West Coast of North America in just a few years, according to new research. Source: Once-abundant sea stars imperiled by disease … Continue reading →

Counties with higher levels of fine particulate (PM2.5) air pollution have more stroke deaths and shorter life expectancies among their citizenry. About half of US counties have annual air pollution levels that exceed guidelines from the Environmental Protection Agency. Source: … Continue reading →

Microplastics have been found in the guts of every marine mammal examined in a new study of animals washed up on Britain’s shores. Source: Plastic in Britain’s seals, dolphins and whales

An analysis of satellite data has revealed global patterns of extreme rainfall, which could lead to better forecasts and more accurate climate models. Source: Extreme rainfall events are connected around the world

The research, published in the journal Nature Sustainability, identified 226 food production shocks across 134 nations over the 53-year period, noting an increasing frequency of shocks across all sectors on a global scale. Source: Extreme weather and geopolitics major drivers … Continue reading →

It is time we consider the implications of it being too late to avert a global environmental catastrophe in the lifetimes of people alive today. — Jem Bendell, “Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy”, July 27th, 2018 In … Continue reading →

The official federal announcement of global temperatures has been delayed by the U.S. government shutdown — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com Source: 2018 Was the 4th Warmest Year on Record, Berkeley Group Announces

The world’s most eminent predictors of doom, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, gathered Thursday to announce just how close humanity is from irreversible collapse. The answer: pretty damn close. The Doomsday Clock is two minutes from midnight (read “the end … Continue reading →

People may not have thought that growth in carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels in the atmosphere would accelerate, when pledges were made in 2015 at the Paris Agreement to take efforts to keep the temperature rise under 1.5°C compared to preindustrial. … Continue reading →

Microplastics contaminate the world’s surface waters, yet scientists have only just begun to explore their presence in groundwater systems. A new study is the first to report microplastics in fractured limestone aquifers — a groundwater source that accounts for 25 … Continue reading →

Beijing’s Buddhist diplomacy depends on controlling the Tibetan leader’s next reincarnation. Source: The Coming Fight for the Dalai Lama’s Soul

Before the Big Bang, time may have run in reverse. Source: A Mirror Image of Our Universe May Have Existed Before the Big Bang

Sea level rise puts coastal areas at the forefront of the impacts of climate change, but new research shows they face other climate-related threats as well. Scientists found that the energy of ocean waves has been growing globally, and they … Continue reading →

The Earth’s surface is 70 percent water, but even that underestimates how vital ocean health is to our planet’s ability to maintain life. Recent results from scientists around the world only further confirm that our waterworld is in serious danger. … Continue reading →

With a highly publicized test firing and pledge by President Vladimir Putin that it will soon be deployed to frontline units, Russia’s Avangard hypersonic weapon has officially gone from a secretive development program to an inevitability. Source: The Age of … Continue reading →

By Malcolm Light Humanity is facing the final, western corporate capitalist, fossil fuel initiated, catastrophic Arctic methane hydrate destabilization and Permian style methane blowout – firestorm that will culminate in 1 to 8 years (2020 to 2027). Source: Global Extinction … Continue reading →

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Washington could become the first state to embrace another funerary practice by making it legal to compost the dead. The method is called “recomposing” and claims to be cheaper and more environmentally … Continue reading →

Right now, on the shores of Antarctica, there’s open water crashing against the largest ice shelf in the world. The annual ice-free season has begun at the Ross Ice Shelf — a month ahead of schedule. The frozen region of … Continue reading →

Enlarge (credit: Getty | DEA / C.DANI / I.JESKE ) A quick reminder: there’s a band of feral monkeys running wild in Central Florida that carries a type of herpes lethal to humans. The mischievous simians— who are not shy … Continue reading →

“Brains of 3 People Have Been Successfully Connected, Enabling Them to Share Thoughts “. More details here : We present BrainNet which, to our knowledge, is the first multi-person non-invasive direct brain-to-brain interface for collaborative problem solving. Source: BrainNet

Glacier National Park is drip, drip, dripping into a puddle. People and companies and governments are cutting down trees to burn them to save the planet from global warming, mixing the sacrificial trees with oh-so-clean coal, and in Detroit with … Continue reading →

“Shall I bend low and in a bondman’s key, With bated breath and whisp’ring humbleness…?” Shylock (Merchant of Venice, Act 1, Scene 3) As dark nights draw in, the venerable contrarians at the GWPF are still up late commissioning silly … Continue reading →

One expert says Trump has the power to declare martial law and even shut down portions of the internet. Elizabeth Goitein, co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice and author of a new … Continue reading →

Are we, deep down, wired to be bad, blinkered, idle, vain, vengeful and selfish? It’s a question that’s reverberated through the ages – are humans, though imperfect, essentially kind, sensible, good-natured creatures? Or are we, deep down, wired to be … Continue reading →

That United States commanders-in-chief are not put to the same test before they are allowed to lead the troops or to order the use of nuclear weapons is, I believe, a serious omission. Since the beginning of Donald Trump’s presidency, … Continue reading →

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 →

An extraordinary book has recently gone on display at the Barakat Gallery in Los Angeles and the Taschen bookstore in New York City. Murals of Tibet , by the American photographer Thomas Laird, is not just extraordinary in size—the 500-page … Continue reading →

Historians argue among themselves whether Thucydides is a moralizing philosopher or, in a common phrase, “the first scientific historian.” What is radical about him, and gives him his unerring clear-sightedness, is that he is both. Source: What Thucydides Knew About … Continue reading →

A stark new United Nations climate report warns that humans have about 12 years to slash global emissions by nearly half. Unfortunately, that’s going to be extremely challenging with deep changes to the global financial system. Despite regularly claiming new … Continue reading →

Since 1991, the world’s oceans have absorbed an amount of heat energy each year that is 150 times the energy humans produce as electricity annually, according to a new study. The strong ocean warming the researchers found suggests that Earth … Continue reading →

In the latest shooting to outrage the nation, Amber Guyger, an off-duty Dallas police officer, claims she walked into the wrong apartment in the building where she lived and pointed her gun at Botham Shem Jean, thinking that he was … Continue reading →

angry tapir writes: Just over 17 years since the project launched, and more than 18 years since the last release of the operating system that inspired it, the open source Haiku OS is nearing a beta release. Read more of … Continue reading →

A uthors like to flatter themselves by imagining for their work an “ideal reader,” a cherubic presence endowed with bottomless generosity, the sympathy of a parent, and the wisdom of, well, the authors themselves. In Carbon Ideologies , William T. … Continue reading →

The seemingly random digits known as prime numbers are not nearly as scattershot as previously thought. A new analysis by Princeton University researchers has uncovered patterns in primes that are similar to those found in the positions of atoms inside … Continue reading →

This is a re-post from Carbon Brief by Daisy Dunne An additional 290 million people could face malnutrition by 2050 if little is done to stop the rise of greenhouse gas emissions, a study finds. The increased presence of CO2 … Continue reading →

Click here for reuse options! While the conspiracy theory crowd may appear to just be an odd quirk of modern society, the truth is that many of them suffer from psychological illnesses that involve paranoia and delusions. While it has … Continue reading →

For anyone who has ever been a reader, there’s much to sympathize with in Maryanne Wolf’s Reader, Come Home . The UCLA neuroscientist, a great lover of literature, tries to read Hermann Hesse’s Glass Bead Game , an old favorite, … Continue reading →

In 1704, Isaac Newton predicted the end of the world sometime around (or after, “but not before”) the year 2060, using a strange series of mathematical calculations. Rather than study what he called the “book of nature,” he took as … Continue reading →

A Brazilian expedition captured images of the indigenous peoples and their tools, along with an aerial photo of a thatched hut.

As a Marxist, I’m not very interested in the psychology of the powerful. I don’t think it matters much, and it tends to be pretty uniform and predictable anyway: self-overestimation, self-justification, moral rationalizations for every horrendous decision made, brutal callousness … Continue reading →

49885: 2018-05-09 Eugene Cash: Story of Anathapindika: Death and Letting go (Retreat at Spirit Rock) Source: 49885: 2018-05-09 Eugene Cash: Story of Anathapindika: Death and Letting go (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Scientists will grow small amounts of tissue, known as brain organoids, from human stem cells that have been edited to contain “Neanderthalized” versions of several genes. “The lentil-sized organoids, which are incapable of thoughts or feelings, replicate some of the … Continue reading →

“Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it,” Jonathan Swift once wrote. It was hyperbole three centuries ago. But it is a factual description of social media, according to an ambitious and first-of-its-kind study published Thursday in Science . … Continue reading →

Richard Painter, a former White House ethics lawyer with little public profile before 2016, has emerged as a prominent critic of Donald Trump. The 56-year-old law professor has tried to discredit the president through op-eds, countless television appearances, and a … Continue reading →

Soylent Sample Box | $6 | Amazon | Includes $6 credit towards future Soylent purchase If you’re curious to give Soylent a try, but don’t want to commit, this Amazon Sample Box is for you . Pay $6 up front … Continue reading →

Software that hijacks your computer to mine has become the most popular malware on the planet. Source: Forget Viruses or Spyware—Your Biggest Cyberthreat Is Greedy Cryptocurrency Miners

Social science research explores how our minds push away information that gets in the way of our feelings and desires. Source: How Humans Use ‘Strategic Ignorance’ When Facts Get In The Way

Coenzyme Q (CoQ) is a vital cog in the body’s energy-producing machinery, a kind of chemical gateway in the conversion of food into cellular fuel. But six decades removed from its discovery, scientists still can’t describe exactly how and when … Continue reading →

In just one day, an area of land covering 1,860 square miles of the Northwest Territory has burned. That’s a zone 50 percent larger than the entire state of Rhode Island going up in smoke over just one 24 hour … Continue reading →

Source: Smoke Blankets Western North America, 106 F Temps in Portland, Flash Northern Plains Drought Threatens U.S. Wheat Crop

This is Not Cool Huh. I see the video above has gotten 125k views while I wasn’t looking. Climate blogger Collin Maessen and I interviewed Richard Muller in 2014 at the American Geophysical Union. Muller, a one-time darling of denierville, got … Continue reading →

Journalists covering the Trump saga should definitely watch this Dutch TV documentary that tells stories that should have been featured during the campaign but weren’t. Ordinary citizens should find a quiet 45 minutes and watch it as well. Source: The … Continue reading →

Donald Trump has an instinct for doing violence to language. Using words to lie destroys language. Using words to cover up lies, however subtly, destroys language. Validating incomprehensible drivel with polite reaction also destroys language. Source: The Autocrat’s Language

via Chinese Government Wants to Decide the Dalai Lama’s Next Reincarnation | Ancient Origins

“As the Kaliyuga progresses towards the final conflagration and the life expectancy of man decreases to fifty years, the Doctrine of Shakyamuni will be subject to degeneration, and these conditions will prevail, portending ruin: Householders fill the monasteries and there … Continue reading →

Source: A Halo of Storms and Heatwaves — New Study Confirms that Global Warming is Wrecking the Northern Hemisphere Jet Stream

Originally posted on Violent metaphors:
Update (1/3/18) I’ve been overwhelmed with requests for the shorter guide, and the email address below no longer works. So I’ve uploaded a copy of the guide for anyone to download and share here: How…

Originally posted on Earth First! Newswire:
By Bob Petz / Ecology Last month was the second warmest June on record, according to global surface temperature data from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. This year’s global average of 14.67 °C…

Originally posted on robertscribbler:
The Arctic’s Contribution to Runaway Global Warming (hypothetical worst-case runaway) . The above image provides a potential worst-case scenario for amplifying Arctic methane feedbacks to human-caused climate change. James Hansen’s research shows that a mini-runaway, pushing…

Simple theory may explain dark matter.

Money as Pain Relief.

Newly-Released Memo by Donald Rumsfeld Proves Iraq War Started On False Pretenses | Washington’s Blog.

Originally posted on capitoilette:
From here to eternity: a small plaque on the campus of the University of Chicago commemorates the site of Fermi’s first atomic pile–and the start of the world’s nuclear waste problem. (Photo: Nathan Guy via Flickr)…

crab cakes…pralines…bacon ice-cream

“…a bell like that can’t be unrung…” priceless.

Originally posted on Buddhist Art News:
Korean Hearlad Park Sui, Intern reporter 2013-02-07 The members of “Udumbara Band,” the first Buddhist music band in Korea. (Yonhap) “Udumbara Band” surprises many with its unique title as the first Korean Buddhist music…

If it goes off while I’m brushing, there could be a problem.

Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided?. Paul & Anne Erlich, Proceedings of the Royal Society, published today. Start stocking up.

Originally posted on The Extinction Protocol:
  December 24, 2012 – GEOLOGY – It has long been known that volcanic activity can cause short-term variations in climate. Now, researchers at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (Germany), together…

The Associated Press: Next Bush makes campaign filing in Texas.     Watch Out, Hilary 2016!

The Believer – Interview with Maurice Sendak.

“The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. Children, of course, begin life with an untarnished sense of wonder, a capacity to experience total joy at something as simple as the greenness of a leaf; but … Continue reading →

180,000-Year-Old Mutation Allowed Humans to Become Vegetarians and Move Out of Africa : Science/Tech : Medical Daily.

Voices from Solitary: A Spark in the Dark. This seems like a worthy cause.

Norway prison seeks ‘friends’ to play hockey, chess with mass killer Breivik – World News. Chess….maybe

I welcome the atomization of society and I look forward to a socialism based on it, to the day when the disintegration of tradition will be as final and universal for the masses as it is already for the artist, … Continue reading →

The End of Gore Vidal, Lila Azam Zanganeh interviews Gore Vidal – Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics.

Chore list of champions—By Kurt Vonnegut (Harper’s Magazine).

Bad Writing Award Winners Announced « PWxyz.   It were be a dark (Aaargh) and STUUUURMY night….( perfect for walking the plank) (Aaargh)!!   Everything sounds better in Pirate!  

Cognitive Science of Religion: Looking Back, Looking Forward – Barrett – 2011 – Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion – Wiley Online Library.

 Los Angeles Review of Books – Psychiatry’s Legitimacy Crisis. I remember having the same sinking feeling of pointlessness about the field of psychiatry after reading Physical Control of the Mind by Jose Delgado back in college.  I had invested so … Continue reading →

ShukerNature: WASHINGTON’S EAGLE AND OTHER GIANT MYSTERY EAGLES OF NORTH AMERICA.   I need to build a lead coat for Renee ASAP.