"I frequently engage with government and policy inquiries to try to make things better. Nothing is getting better. Nothing works. I oscillate between pure rage and total despair […] I feel a huge responsibility to use my privilege and my knowledge to push for change. It's exhausting and v...
While I am certain I have neither the experience or complete knowledge to balance national budgets, ensure prosperity and maintain the health of an entire country, I do have some ideas about what we’re doing wrong conservation-wise, and how we could potentially fix things. This is not meant...
David Eagleman:The main thing that inspired me to write this book is looking at all the ways the conscious is just the littlest bit of what’s happening in the brain. Your brain does these massive computations under the hood all the time. And a hunch essentially is the result of all tho...
We all know Trump’s agreements were often lies, that he often said he would do something, then failed to carry out his decisions; that things would have looked different if Joseph Biden had not commanded a majority of 7 million votes to Trump. The only difference would have been we all ...
“The economic fragilities are never far away. So people coming walking and going to the cafe spending some money, staying in the hostel, these things are important” (M22). The success of the project was underpinned by the diversity of local groups involved with the CCDC and also the ...
Over the time, children become engaged in making predictions, becoming scientists, learning about plants, liv- ing things, weather, and seasonal changes. Participation in projects like the Tulip Garden 13 "For whom? By whom?": critical perspectives of participation… 773 "gives students an ...
how they predicted weather before…now we depend on the radio, and news broadcasts, and weather things to find out what the weather is, so, you know, so, I think more, when somebody screams, you know, bad weather, I think everyone’s going to get scared and hunker down and stay the...
What has also changed is the number of natural and civil interruptions happening in the other places that I visit. In the areas that I was in just over the last series of months, we watched the Vermont and Kentucky floods, the Canadian wildfires, and many other localized disasters that elic...
Composting can be as easy as tossing some food scraps and leaves in a bin. Here’s a goodguide to getting started composting, including a great list of 100 things you can compost. In addition to saving on fertilizer, if you pay for trash collection, you can save money by wasting less....
What I think ought to be a value is not to cohere, not to try to agree on a specific way of doing things. It is rather to try to be innovative, and trying to innovate and do things differently, I think that that's a value that is much more tenable as a basis of an interdiscipl...