Could AI degrade our science and debase our ethics?
Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis
Dr. Eve Darian-Smith contends that using fire as a symbolic and literal thread connecting different places around the world allows us to better understand the parallel and related trends of the growth of authoritarian politics and climate crises and their interconnected global consequences.
A Bigger Boat | Frankly #26
In this Frankly, Nate shares some context about how he thinks about the recent global banking and financial market news.
India to get heat waves this year after hottest February on record
Expected heat waves for India may have serious impacts on food supply.
Beyond fed up: six hard trends that lead to food system breakdown.
Trends suggest that even radical policies could only
delay, not avert, a tragedy from disrupted food supplies.
Blue foods can help solve multiple global challenges
Blue foods – fish, shellfish, algae and aquatic plants – can be instrumental in solving multiple global crises, new analysis shows.
Inside the dissident fringe, where the new right meets the far left, and everyone’s bracing for apocalypse
Preppers, techies, hippies, and yuppies are converging on the American West, the safest place to “exit” a society gone haywire.
Our big problem is not misinformation; it’s knowingness
Oedipus’ fatal flaw is that he refuses to accept new information, because he always assumes he already knows what he needs to know
Omega: Post Capitalism Philanthropy with Alnoor Ladha and Lynn Murphy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp3KgkzXDp0 Hosted by Michael Lerner, this conversation discusses Alnoor and Lynn's new book Post Capitalist Philanthropy: Healing Wealth in the Time of Collapse. Post Capitalist Philanthropy takes us on a journey from the history of...
Crazy Town: Episode 65. Why the polycrisis is a statistical anomaly: The willful delusions of the world’s leading pseudointellectual
Meet Steven Pinker, whose denial of limits increases the likelihood of his worst fear: the end of the Enlightenment.
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