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Stonehenge: The Machine, the Landscape and the Making of a World

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.

El Niño Explained: 2026 Impact & the Future Prognosis

Ocean temperatures hit a record 21.1°C in August, out of season. El Niño, climate change and what the hottest sea ever measured means for 2027

The Divine Within: Why I Keep Circling the Idea That the Sacred Is an Inside Job

The divine within: a personal reflection on Jung, mysticism, meditation and prayer, and why I still cannot decide whether the sacred is an inside job.

Illusions of AI Sentience: The Hidden Human Workforce Behind the Machine

Article inspired by a visit Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art, e exhibition, "Data Dreams Art and AI, December, 2025 Kevin Parker Site Publisher An...

The Era of Enshittification

The Era of Enshittification a decline in quality and integrity across digital platforms, highlighting societal and economic implications.

The Mirror That Narrows: Predictive AI, Cognitive Monoculture, and the Ecology of Mind

In a quiet gallery at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, a wall of text poses a number of questions that have haunted...

Doomscrolling, Inc.: Inside the Attention Industry’s Global Expansion—and How to Fight Back

As of November 2025, the world is at a critical inflection point in the attention economy: billions of users remain tethered to designed-to-be addictive...

AI Existential Risk: Why Tech Leaders Can’t Agree on Artificial Intelligence Safety

AI’s future splits: some predict utopia, others extinction. Tech leaders clash over safety, ethics, and control as harms already emerge.

The Philosophical Architecture of Cyberpunk: From Reagan-Era Anxieties to Posthuman Identity

Cyberpunk emerged as both a literary movement and philosophical intervention in early 1980s America, crystallizing anxieties about technology, consciousness, and corporate power into a...

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