Article: Neoliberalism Creates Loneliness

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Article: Neoliberalism Creates Loneliness

My recommendation for today is this article about the causes and effects of loneliness. Spoiler: modern digital-industrial society is to blame (who else?!). And the cure? Tribalism. Living in small

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Article: Global Fisheries Are Collapsing

Most of us tend not to think about the oceans too much, since it is ‘just water with some fish in it’. But the oceans make up over 70% of

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Article: Society could come to an end in less than a decadde

“Society could come to an end in less than a decade, a mathematical historian has predicted. Professor Peter Turchin said sweeping political turmoil and social unrest could result in the

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Article: Sugar – the world’s most popular drug?

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jan/05/is-sugar-worlds-most-popular-drug There is no doubt sugar is dangerous, addictive and unhealthy. Try going one single day without any sugar and see how you feel. This article supplies you with all

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Article: Seven things we do to destroy the planet

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/19/seven-deadly-things-trash-planet-human-life?utm_content=buffer4371d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer Why we need to go beyond civilization.

Article: Uncontacted Yanomami found

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/17/new-photos-emerge-of-uncontacted-tribe-in-the-amazon/ It turns out that some one hundred members of one of my favorite South-American tribes, the Yanomami, have so far been spared from devastating contact with the civilized world.

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Article: The sugar industry lied

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-industry-shifted-blame-to-fat.html?_r=0 Sugar is the number one ingredient we should exclude from our diet and the main cause of obesity, heart disease, diabetes and cancer. What happens when capitalism meets science

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Article: The simple life is necessary

https://aeon.co/ideas/why-the-simple-life-is-not-just-beautiful-it-s-necessary The simple life is indeed not only a good choice but a necessity, however for reasons that are beyond the authors ability to comprehend and rooted much more deeply

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Article: Tennessee wildfires

As the world burns… Civilized humans play, quite literally, with fire. Through global warming we trigger certain processes that get out of hand very easily, creating an autonomous dwindling spiral

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Article: Bone scans suggest early hominids spent significant time in trees

Climbing trees is woven deeply into our genes and is one of the most natural things to do for humans; it has the power to awaken some kind of archaic

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