Japanese zen gardens represent humanity's most refined attempt to distill nature's essence into contemplative spaces that serve both aesthetic and spiritual purposes. These minimalist...
The ocean faces an existential crisis requiring immediate, large-scale protection through marine parks. With 37.7% of fish stocks overfished, 11-14 million tonnes of plastic...
Press Release 11th August, 2025 - Geneva, Switzerland — A new Greenpeace International investigation confirms that airborne microplastics are present in the urban air...
A personal reflection on my meditation practice and experience in relation to the insights of neuroscience- no claim to expertise, as still struggling to...
Part I: The Phenomenon and the Mythic Imagination
An Arch of Light and Wonder
Few natural phenomena have so universally captivated the human imagination as the...
Introduction: The Crisis of Authority in an Age of Intelligent Machines
The rapid ascent of artificial intelligence has precipitated a crisis of authority in public...
The question of what constitutes authoritative evidence in AI ethics has become one of the most consequential debates shaping technology governance today. As artificial...
Press Release Gland, Switzerland, 7 August 2025 (IUCN) – Poaching of African rhinos has decreased since 2021, but the gains have been offset by other...
In the heart of Beijing's Forbidden City, where vermillion walls once separated emperor from subject, tourists from every continent now photograph the same architectural...
Buddhism treats kindness as something you practise rather than something that visits you. On mettā as a trainable skill, Buddhaghosa's near enemies, and what happens when the most developed doctrine of loving-kindness in the world is set beside its own record
The satellites have named the mountain — the same massif that destroyed Langtang village in 2015. K.J. Parker sorts a month of evidence into fact, inference, contested and speculation, states the Langtang hypothesis, and sets out how it could actually be tested
Melbourne's liveability rankings measure the compact, tram-served inner city. They do not measure Tarneit on a 45-degree day. On 27 January 2026 the western suburbs ran three degrees hotter than the centre — and that gap, not the weather, is the story of a world-class urban forest, a sprawling metropolis, falling reservoirs and two cities under one name.
"Is kindness merely a feeling, or is it a load-bearing structure for society? Kevin J Parker, author of 'The Backbone of Kindness: Restoring Our Oldest Virtue', explores the profound intersection of Theosophy and modern ethics, examining how compassion functions as the 'Law of laws' and the essential backbone of human arrangements."
Explore the empirical reality of global warming right now. Uncover accelerating ocean heat, temperature overshoot pathways, and critical planetary tipping points.
Hawkins's computer was too literal. But his instinct — that Stonehenge handled information — survives every test the sixty years since have thrown at it. An investigation through stone provenance, isotopes, ancient DNA and landscape archaeology, ending with a named, testable hypothesis: the Gathering Engine.
Cities ran sewers and traffic computers long before anyone sold them the word. Around 2008 “smart” acquired an owner. Four product cities show what it cost.
