Executive Summary
The Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch-OR) theory represents one of the most ambitious and controversial scientific frameworks for consciousness ever proposed (1, 2). Developed...
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Climate change is forcing a global redistribution of marine life, yet tracking the vanguard of this migration is challenging with traditional visual surveys that...
Beyond Materialism—A New Framework for Activism
The landscape of modern activism is marked by a profound and often disheartening paradox. On one hand, awareness of...
Introduction: The Scientist's Dilemma—A Feeling for the Organism or a Dispassionate Gaze?
The archetype of the scientist is etched into the cultural imagination with a...
Dame Jane Morris Goodall, formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, the English zoologist, primatologist and anthropologist has passed away. Considered the world's foremost expert on...
In the summer of 2019, pilot Paddy Sullivan was flying his research team over Alaska's pristine Salmon River when he noticed something deeply wrong....
The nature of reality and its relationship to information has emerged as one of the most profound questions in contemporary physics and philosophy. John...
The world fractures into a thousand hexagonal truths through my compound eyes, each facet catching ultraviolet psalms that your kind cannot fathom. I see...
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This essay argues for an accelerated transition to green energy in the United States, framing it as an economic, environmental, and public health imperative....
Riyadh is planting 7.5m trees and running a new metro against an Expo 2030 deadline. A look at the water, heat and money behind the desert city's greening
As regular readers of this blog know I have an abiding interest in Artificial Intelligence, and, in particular, it's potential to develop proto-consciousness, or, to put it another way, for AI to reach a point of Singularity, a hypothetical point where artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence and...
An AI sandbox breach exposed a new risk: powerful agents can turn tools and permissions into action, leaving guardrail-bound defenders at a disadvantage.
Green Cities Series | Article 17
For a decade, the Lombard capital has captured the global imagination with photogenic vertical forests and promises of millions of new trees. Yet beneath the canopy lies the Po Valley—one of...
GREEN CITIES SERIES | ARTICLE 15
The atmospheric tension in Cape Town during the austral summer of 2017–2018 was characterized by a distinct psychological phenomena that researchers have since termed an Anthropocene moment.1 It was a period when the theoretical abstractions of climate modeling collided with the tactile...
Mexico City faces sinking and water crises due to drained lakes and urban growth. Explore the environmental challenges and solutions shaping its future
The chamber still looks improbably calm. Green marble. Translation headsets. Country names set out in alphabetical order, as though the world’s grief can be organised by stationery. Afghanistan sits near Albania. Tuvalu speaks into the same record as the United States. Delegates rise, denounce, defend, abstain and...
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