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A doomscrollers guide to climate hyperbole: countering the doomism of Deep...
In his recent book The New Climate War, Michael Mann, who led the research team that gave us the global temperature hockey stick, identifies three types of opposition in the battle for climate action:...
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“The Web of Meaning: integrating science and traditional wisdom to find our place in the universe”, by Jeremy Lent, ventures into the speculative territory between science and religion in search of...
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The fifth horseman: environmental determinism rides again in ‘An Inconvenient...
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‘Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science and Religion’ is a thoroughly engaging and detailed account of the backstories to the big debates between science and religion over the past five...
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Panpsychism revived, in James Bridle’s “Ways of Being”
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On 19 May 2024, the Vatican released a new ruling on miracles. Since 1978, the veracity of visions and weeping statues has been determined by local dioceses, but that call now resides with the...
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The tyranny of the cloud: how we became serfs to big tech
Technofeudalism is Yanis Varoufakis’ term for the hold that social media, online commerce and cloud computing have over our lives. How they influence what we buy, shape what we think and oversee the...
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