Western Spirit
Bundyville: The Remnant – Longreads
Read MoreThe Gods Must be Crazy, Tales of Hollywood
A Religion of Life | Do the Math (ucsd.edu) We are a story telling species. Stories about “god s” gave selective advantage to groups, who developed greater internal altruism. It rolled the dice in their favor in out group…
Read MoreNuclear Waste and the Columbia River
Book review: Atomic Days. The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America | Peak Everything, Overshoot, & Collapse (energyskeptic.com) Will Congress ever create a new independent agency to store nuclear waste permanently? | Peak…
Read MoreEconomic Botany and the Biodiversity of Human Utilized Plants
The global distribution of plants used by humans (science.org)
Read MoreThe 6th Great Extinction, in the Shadow of Homo
Peter Brannen: “Deep Time, Mass Extinctions, and Today” | The Great Simplification
Read MoreFungal Communication or the Inference of Information Caused by the Evolved Mammalian Pattern Seeking Propensity?
Mushrooms may ‘talk’ to one another with up to 50 words | Science | AAAS
Read MoreHuman Flourishing and CO2 Flux to the Global Atmosphere
Consumption-based CO₂ emissions per capita vs. Human Development Index, 2021 (ourworldindata.org)
Read MorePotential Natural Vegetation
vegetation_1970_lg.jpg (3000×1984) (codex99.com) Note climate has changed since this map was produced. Also, there is a greater understanding of how Native Americans changed vegetation type by fire. LS
Read MoreDeep Time
50 years ago, scientists thought they had found Earth’s oldest rocks (sciencenews.org) Single cell life, on Earth has been in existence for 3.7 billion years 17,000 times longer than the recent faith that creation was 6000 years ago. The…
Read MoreNeo Darwin, an Updated Quote
“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its dissipative powers, having been originally induced into many forms of far from equilibrium dissipative systems; and that, whilst irreversible processes on this planet have produced entropy…
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