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Shanghai, China: Sponge City on the Delta

GREEN CITIES SERIES  |  ARTICLE 12 Shanghai is sinking. The city centre has subsided more than three metres since the late nineteenth century, while the...

The Living Marsh: The World’s Remaining Wetlands and the Intelligence of Water

The Living Marsh Feature · The Living World The world’s remaining wetlands, the work they do for the planet, and the intelligence of water At first light,...

Modern Slavery in the Twenty-First Century

Is modern slavery surging, or just better counted? Inside the contested 49.6 million figure, forced-labour supply chains and the new trade crackdown.

Shenzhen, China: Electrifying the Megacity

GREEN CITIES SERIES  |  ARTICLE 10 In 2017, Shenzhen became the first city in the world to operate a fully electric public bus fleet. In...

James Webb Space Telescope: Reconciling Cosmic Puzzles from the Edge of Time

Listen to our five minute Deep Dive into the content in this article James Webb's Cosmic Conundrum: Early Galaxies Challenge Everything We Thought We Knew Section...

Understanding Our Place in the Cosmos: A Buddhist Philosophy Perspective

Introduction: The Paradox of Significance In the vastness of a universe containing billions of galaxies, each with billions of stars, the human mind naturally grapples...

The Enduring Appeal of Panpsychism: Consciousness as a Fundamental Feature of Reality

The notion that consciousness pervades all of nature might seem like a relic of pre-scientific thinking, yet panpsychism—the view that mentality is a fundamental...

Multiverse: How Many Universes Are There, Anyway?

Analysis and Summary of John Ashmead’s “How Many Universes Are There, Anyway?”Balticon Presentation, May 23rd, 2015 Summary John Ashmead’s presentation at Balticon 2015, titled How Many...

Divine Omniscience and the Quantum Multiverse: A Critical Analysis of Antoine Suarez’s “Future Contingents” Thesis

By Kevin Parkerwith full credit to Dr. Antoine Suarez, Center for Quantum Philosophy, Zurich and Geneva Introduction In his 2018 presentation “Future Contingents and the Multiverse,”...

Conscious AI? Is Artificial Intelligence Capable of Independent Consciousness?

Is a machine capable of independent consciousness, or is consciousness an exclusively biological phenomenon? This question has moved from science fiction into serious interdisciplinary...

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