Seven Questions about Technology You Aren’t Even Allowed to Ask | Antonio Regalado

Sex robots, climate hacking, and the true cost of medicine made our list of taboo technology topics. July 28, 2016 (MIT Technology Review) -- What technologies and questions about technology are just ...

Our best shot at cooling the planet might be right under our feet | Jason Hickel

Cracked soil by a village in Iran abandoned by farmers because water reserves ran dry due to overuse. Photograph: Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images Studies suggest that regenerating soil by turning our ba ...

Nuclear Calendar -- Oct. 17, 2016 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar Friend's Committee on National Legislation October 17, 2016 Oct. 3-Nov. 2 U.N. General Assembly First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) meets. United Nations. Oct. 4 ...

An Afternoon in Early Autumn | John Michael Greer

Future World Is On My Hand. From hdwallpapersrocks.com Oct. 12, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- I think it was the late science writer Stephen Jay Gould who coined the term “deep time” for the vast panora ...

Trio wins Nobel chemistry prize for 'world's smallest machines' | Reuters

Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa, winners of the 2016 Nobel prize in chemistry. Photograph: Nobel Prize. Image: Guardian Oct. 5, 2016 (Reuters) -- Jean-Pierre Sauvag ...

Air Pollution Skyrocketing Worldwide in 'Public Health Emergency': WHO | Nadia Prupis

WHO found that fully 92 percent of people worldwide live in regions where the pollution exceeds the organization's safety limits. (Photo: UCL News/flickr/cc) Developing countries and vulnerable popul ...

A Time for Retrovation | John Michael Greer

John Michael GreerSept. 21, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- It's been a little more than a year now since I started the narrative that wrapped up last week. The two weeks that Peter Carr spent in the Lake ...

Nuclear Calendar -- Sept. 19, 2016 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation September 19, 2016 Sept. 14-24 Screening of Command and Control. Film Forum, 209 W. Houston St., New York. Sept. 19 Noon, Daryl Kimball, ...

Central Bank Digital Currencies: A Revolution in Banking? | Ellen Brown

From: panamericanworld.com Sept. 16, 2016 (The Web Of Debt Blog) -- Several central banks -- including the Bank of England, the People’s Bank of China, the Bank of Canada and the Federal Reserve -- a ...

Looking back on the first decade of Facebook “activism!” | Mickey Z.

Credit: Enoc vt (File:Botón Me gusta.svg) , via Wikimedia Commons Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Sept. 15, 2016 On Sept. 26, 2006, Facebook became open to anyone aged 13 and over, with a valid e-mail ...

Retrotopia: The Cloud that Hides the Future | John Michael Greer

John Michael GreerSept. 14, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- This is the 25th and last installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative f ...