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GMO corn causes organ damage in mammals
From the Pesticide Action Network (PAN North America): A ground-breaking study in the International Journal of Biological Studies links three common varieties of Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) corn to liver and kidney toxicity and clearly illustrates the need for independent … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, food, GMOs, monoculture, science
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Happy 150th to Darwin’s Origin of Species
On November 24, 1859, Charles Darwin published his On the Origin of Species. I learned this from Bron Taylor during a reading from his new book, Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future, at the Boulder Book Store … Continue reading
Farms and cars polluting Rocky Mountain lakes
In case we needed any more evidence of the wretchedly unsustainable state of our food growing and auto use, this week the journal Science published a study on how airborne nitrogen from autos, agriculture, and power plants is worsening the … Continue reading
Mystical experiences—good for biology
People’s spiritual experiences of nature confer evolutionary advantages. The idea might be startling to those who think science and spirituality have little to do with each other. But recently I had the pleasure of hearing environmental scientist Terry Terhaar, a … Continue reading
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Tagged attitudes toward nature, biophilia, connecting with nature, science, spirituality, Terry Terhaar
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Trusting the senses
I haven’t been able to forget a comment David Abram made during his keynote at a conference I attended in the spring. He said even science, devoted as it is to studying the material world, in practice acts as if … Continue reading
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Tagged animism, attitudes toward nature, Brian Greene, David Abram, Descartes, Plato, science, science and religion
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“From future threat to present emergency”: Boulder panel on climate change
At a panel on climate change this morning at Chautauqua’s rather pompously named “Grand Convergence,” Bill McKibben joined five of Boulder’s brightest minds on climate change to strategize together about energy use, global warming, and what ordinary people can do … Continue reading
“Necessity is the mother of invention” for clever rooks
The tale is an old one: a thirsty raven drops stones into a pitcher to raise the water level so she can drink. The story was told by Pliny the Elder, a naturalist in the Roman Empire of the first … Continue reading