The Influence of Neoliberalism Runs Deep Better known in the United States as Libertarianism, neoliberal dogma began as simplistic assumptions in old quantitative economic models, before computers; later economists were […]
A graphic depiction of Gaia from Pixabay, showing that we are connected to each other, to our ecology, and to everything else. That everything in the entire universe, not just […]
This is one variation of Ouroboros, a snake eating its own tail — doesn’t recognize its own tail.. Here Ouroboros is also shown in the form of the universal symbol […]
The Economy Critically Disrupts the Balance of Nature Black Lives Matter demonstrations all over the world crowded Covid-19 out of the news, swelling into a pandemic of demonstrations in small […]
Planet of the Humans, movie by Michael Moore and Jeff Gibbs Moore and Gibbs’ movie appears calculated to incite controversy. If so, they certainly roiled the environmental community. […]
Finding Our Real Reserves April 7, 2020 Covid-19 and its economic tailspin presage many more crises to come. We must change how we live and how we think. Our economic […]
Legal Creep Or why we think there is no alternative to economic expansion A better sub-title for this essay with two book reviews might be “can we escape our […]
Quality over Quantity, Always (3 minute video) You are invited to our Compression Thinking Series Podcast Follow Up Teleconference #6 On Quality Over Quantity 8:00 pm EDT, Tuesday, March 10, […]
Video Conversation on Symbiotic Thinking (13 minutes) You are invited to our Compression Thinking Series Podcast Follow Up Teleconference #4 On Symbiotic Thinking This is fourth in a series of […]
What Will It Take for Us to Become Serious? The split between believers in economic development and those pressing for environmental preservation is poised to become the dominant rift in […]
Most lawns reduce biodiversity.The video is over two years old, but it touches on a subject that popped up in science news three times this past week, here, here, and here. […]
Much public discourse, if you can call it that, revolves around keeping economic expansion going, assuming that no alternative exists. Economists refer to the opposite of expansion as contraction, presuming that it’s […]
Most of us like complex matters to be reduced to something that we can readily understand, using analogies that we can relate to. A molecule with its atoms can be […]
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School Food and Existential Crises by Doc Hall This is a nice chat with Alisa Simpson, school lunch administrator in Portage, MI, near Kalamazoo. She peels back the tangled web […]
The double spiral shown is a computer generated Clothoide, or Cornu spiral. Artistically rendered double spirals symbolize the subject of this article, balance between mysteries: yin-yang, male-female, zero-infinity, and the […]
Dance to the Tune of Life: Biological Relativity, by Denis Noble Book Review by Doc Hall How we explain to ourselves the answers to two big questions underpins the myriad […]
The video does not summarize “Psychic Drivers” (5 minute video) Psychic Drivers by Doc Hall Decades ago a popular German business quip was, “Are you acquiring 30 years of experience, […]
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error, by Kathryn Schulz Kathryn Schulz is a professional journalist and writer covering a broad range of topics. This book was her foray […]
Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference. This podcast topic is “Deep Changing Our Collective Behavior.” Follow up Teleconference: Of all our existential threats, our biggest is “psychic numbness” […]
Listen to the podcast; join the follow-up teleconference. This podcast topic is “Transportation: Stuck in Traffic.” Follow up Teleconference: Only 28% of US energy is used by vehicles, but in […]
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