Ocean on Fire
Bottom trawling is bulldozing the seafloor — even in protected areas. It's destroying marine life and coastal livelihoods. Take action to help end this destructive practice. See here [...] Read more
From Short-Term Appetites to Planetary Stewardship (notes)
From Short-Term Appetites to Planetary Stewardship (notes)
@ 2025 J. Giro Overview
It looks like our natural ability to plan ahead is getting weaker due to business interests, fast news cycles, and [...] Read more
Humanity’s Effect On Nature | Why Your Lifestyle is Killing the Planet
Humanity’s Effect On Nature | Why Your Lifestyle is Killing the Planet Humans are the only species capable of imagining the future while at the same time ignoring the consequences of the future we [...] Read more
The Israel-Iran war is more dangerous than we imagine | David Hearst
This week on The Big Picture Podcast, we sit down with Middle East Eye’s Editor in Chief David Hearst to talk about the rapidly unfolding war between Israel and Iran, why the West supports it and [...] Read more
The Illusion of Thinking - Apple
Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes before providing answers. While these models demonstrate [...] Read more
Ocean Acidification: Another Planetary Boundary Crossed
ABSTRACT
Ocean acidification has been identified in the Planetary Boundary Framework as a planetary process approaching a boundary that could lead to unacceptable environmental change. Using revised [...] Read more
True Evolution is Emotional Rather than Technological: Critical Essay Notes
True Evolution is Emotional Rather than Technological: Critical Essay Notes Introduction
In contemporary discourse, evolution is often equated with technological advancement, marked by artificial [...] Read more
The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering
The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering, Byung-Chul Han In his philosophical reflections on the art of lingering, acclaimed cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han argues that the [...] Read more
Infocracy: Digitization and the Crisis of Democracy
Infocracy: Digitization and the Crisis of Democracy
Author Name: Byung-Chul Han The tsunami of information unleashed by digitization is threatening to overwhelm us, drowning us in a sea of frenzied [...] Read more
Capitalism
A near-unanimous sense of deep wrongness pulses beneath our daily lives—not a single problem, but an undercurrent of weariness that drains the soul more than the body, a vertigo born of racing [...] Read more