An Afternoon in Early Autumn | John Michael Greer

Future World Is On My Hand. From hdwallpapersrocks.com Oct. 12, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- I think it was the late science writer Stephen Jay Gould who coined the term “deep time” for the vast panora ...

Trio wins Nobel chemistry prize for 'world's smallest machines' | Reuters

Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa, winners of the 2016 Nobel prize in chemistry. Photograph: Nobel Prize. Image: Guardian Oct. 5, 2016 (Reuters) -- Jean-Pierre Sauvag ...

Air Pollution Skyrocketing Worldwide in 'Public Health Emergency': WHO | Nadia Prupis

WHO found that fully 92 percent of people worldwide live in regions where the pollution exceeds the organization's safety limits. (Photo: UCL News/flickr/cc) Developing countries and vulnerable popul ...

A Time for Retrovation | John Michael Greer

John Michael GreerSept. 21, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- It's been a little more than a year now since I started the narrative that wrapped up last week. The two weeks that Peter Carr spent in the Lake ...

Nuclear Calendar -- Sept. 19, 2016 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation September 19, 2016 Sept. 14-24 Screening of Command and Control. Film Forum, 209 W. Houston St., New York. Sept. 19 Noon, Daryl Kimball, ...

Central Bank Digital Currencies: A Revolution in Banking? | Ellen Brown

From: panamericanworld.com Sept. 16, 2016 (The Web Of Debt Blog) -- Several central banks -- including the Bank of England, the People’s Bank of China, the Bank of Canada and the Federal Reserve -- a ...

Looking back on the first decade of Facebook “activism!” | Mickey Z.

Credit: Enoc vt (File:Botón Me gusta.svg) , via Wikimedia Commons Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Sept. 15, 2016 On Sept. 26, 2006, Facebook became open to anyone aged 13 and over, with a valid e-mail ...

Retrotopia: The Cloud that Hides the Future | John Michael Greer

John Michael GreerSept. 14, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- This is the 25th and last installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative f ...

Diminishing Returns | John Michael Greer

John Michael GreerJune 15, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- This is the 19th installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative fiction. Ou ...

There’s no such thing as a vegan car | Mickey Z.

Tesla Model X by Steve Jurvetson derivative work: Mariordo (CC BY 2.0) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust March 23, 2016 When Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk tweeted about his preference for the “vegan ultra w ...

Nuclear Calendar -- March 17, 2016 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- March 17, 2016 March 17 9:30 a.m., Senate Armed Services Committee, hearing on "Department of Defense Budget Posture," with Ashton Carter, Defense Secretary; Michael McCord, Under ...