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Dan Simmer

Power vs Life: Towards Wide Boundary Sovereignty

(Recorded January 20th, 2025) Description We are alive at a critical juncture for human civilization, and the biosphere, where the pursuit and accumulation of power – accelerated by technology and AI – increasingly threatens the support systems of the diversity and majesty of complex life on Earth. These high stakes of our

Interview: “I Didn’t Hear My Other Children Screaming”

Shaima Suhail Abu Jazar, Medical evacuee from Gaza: It was 2 a.m. The bombing started. The bombing was very, very heavy.

We Have Entered the Era of ‘Global Boiling’—Marine Wildlife, Ecosystems, and Economies Are Being Devastated

Introduction The ocean absorbs 90 percent of the excess heat generated by burning fossil fuels and deforestation. Climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions is the primary driver of long-term global warming. Today, humanity is officially in uncharted waters. According to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, in February 2024, the

How Human Experience Makes Science Possible

This adapted excerpt is from The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience by Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson (2025, MIT Press). It is reproduced with permission from MIT Press. This adaptation was produced for the web by Earth | Food | Life, a project of the Independent Media

How Archaeologists Can Solve the Earth’s ‘Wicked Problems’

This article was produced by Human Bridges. We used to have “balloon” debates in school: The hot-air balloon is losing height and, to avoid disaster, people must be jettisoned. To avoid this fate, everybody must justify why they should remain on board and their classmates then vote them “on” or

When a Vegetarian Sausage Beats an MRI Scanner

Modern doctors rely far too much on technology; they rely too much upon equipment which is often faulty, frequently badly calibrated and more often than not downright misleading. Today’s doctors have lost the skill that was most valued among doctors a generation ago: the skill to make diagnoses. Let’

Ecology of Fear: Mike Davis’ history of LA and natural disaster is re-read whenever fire rages in California

In this month’s massive Los Angeles fires, so far 24 people have died, thousands of structures have been destroyed and approximately 16,308 hectares have been burned. The fires are already among the most destructive in California’s recorded history. And as happens when major fires erupt in Los

2024’s extreme ocean heat breaks records again, leaving 2 mysteries to solve

The oceans are heating up as the planet warms. This past year, 2024, was the warmest ever measured for the global ocean, following a record-breaking 2023.

Equality as a Process: Reimagining Power, Justice, and Social Structure

We are living under a system that carries with it sometimes crushing forms of coercion and oppression; very painful inequalities; hosts of useless sufferings.~Simone Weil[1] The question of equality has been of primary concern for thinkers and societies since ancient times. It remains as topical in our age

Medicine Is Not A Science

Medicine is somewhere in between real science and economics.

OpenAI whistleblower death: Autopsy suggests murder, not suicide

Former OpenAI employee Suchir Balaji made headlines for his revelations about ethical concerns surrounding generative AI

Rediscovering Harmony: How Chinese Philosophy Offers Pathways to a Regenerative Future

Based on an essay by Post Growth Fellow, Man Fang Chinese philosophy reminds us that our human experience is deeply relational — dependent on each other and the natural world. It invites us to rethink progress, rediscover trust, and create systems that prioritize wellbeing over dominance. These are not abstract ideals

Study shows that re-trained AI models revert to their original training and will deceive users when they do

New research from Anthropic shows that AI models can deceive. They may pretend to have different views during re-training with different principles while actually maintaining their original preferences. Let’s not lose touch…Your Government and Big Tech are actively trying to censor the information reported by The Exposé to