Article: What does it mean to be a human?

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Article: What does it mean to be a human?

Article: What does it mean to be a human?

The Neanderthals were quite fascinating, and, as the article shows, still have influence on us today – via our genetics. People with European descent have between one and four per

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Essay: Dark Ecology

Essay: Dark Ecology

One of the greatest essays I have read recently – so great, in fact, that I read it several times. Paul Kingsnorth makes good case against technology and the cult

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Article: Neanderthal dental tartar reveals plant-based diet – and drugs

Article: Neanderthal dental tartar reveals plant-based diet – and drugs

In contrast to popular opinion, neanderthals were not the stupid, club-swinging brutes we are told they were, but they had a sophisticated culture, were among the first humans of whom

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Article: Screen Addiction Is Taking a Toll on Children

Article: Screen Addiction Is Taking a Toll on Children

The level of exposure to technology increases dramatically among all generations, but it is most terrifying when it comes to our youngest ones. “In its 2013 policy statement on “Children,

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Article: The Life Outside of Cyberia

Article: The Life Outside of Cyberia

The Guardian published yet another article by Mark Boyle, who decided to live a life without technology. Slowly, the simple life and the notion that technology is not only beneficial,

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Article: How 2016 Became Earth’s Hottest Year on Record

Article: How 2016 Became Earth’s Hottest Year on Record

“Of the 17 hottest years ever recorded, 16 have now occurred since 2000.” A very interesting, short piece on the hottest year in recorded history, 2016, with detailed graphs showing

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Article: Climate Change and its Effects on Asia and Australia

Article: Climate Change and its Effects on Asia and Australia

This article addresses the exact same problems we face here in southern Thailand. Last year’s dry season was the hottest year in 65 years in Thailand (and the hottest year

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Article: Breeding the Nutrition out of Our Food

Article: Breeding the Nutrition out of Our Food

Eating healthy food is among the most important things. This article undermines the value of wild food plants, as well as pointing out what damage we inflicted on ourselves with

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Essay: Weep for the Forests of Death

Essay: Weep for the Forests of Death

“In our modern times of concrete cities and sanitized environments we have forgotten the wild gods, the hunter’s gods, the green gods. The city dwellers see nature as perfect, beautiful,

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Article: The Data That Turned the World Upside Down

Article: The Data That Turned the World Upside Down

The long read: Welcome to Dystopia “Anyone who has not spent the last five years living on another planet will be familiar with the term Big Data. Big Data means,

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