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The Weight of Evidence

The Weight of Evidence By Teya Brooks Pribac The late neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp would remind people that science doesn’t give us proofs and certainties but only the weight of evidence. The weight of evidence in Read more…

2 months ago January 12, 2021
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Indigenous Cosmovision Challenges Us to Move from Restoring to “Re-storying” Ecosystems

Indigenous Cosmovision Challenges Us to Move from Restoring to “Re-storying” Ecosystems By Daniel Bryan Recently, I accompanied a Humans for Abundance team to the community of Mushullakta with master ecosystem restorer, Omar Tello.  In a Read more…

3 months ago December 9, 2020
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Haunted Ecology and the Denials of Trumpism

Haunted Ecology and the Denials of Trumpism By A. Marie Houser “I would not be the giver of a gift that would prove fatal to you.” —Ovid, Metamorphoses, trans. Charles Martin Lake Superior, early November, Read more…

4 months ago November 11, 2020
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Embracing the Magicality of Science

Embracing the Magicality of Science By Kocku von Stuckrad A few weeks ago, Renny Thomas argued on this blog that “rituals and prayers are very much part of the public imagination of science in India.” Read more…

5 months ago September 22, 2020
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How the Soul Became Consciousness

How the Soul Became Consciousness By Kocku von Stuckrad The soul is a strange thing. Depending on which expert you trust, you might regard the soul as the immaterial essence of our existence, as a Read more…

8 months ago June 23, 2020
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Here’s to Astrology!

Here’s to Astrology! By Kocku von Stuckrad Astrology is a fascinating and controversial topic. Many people in Europe and North America share the idea that astrology is some superstitious gibberish (perhaps with the exception of Read more…

2 years ago August 28, 2019
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A Report on the Paradoxical Plausibilities Symposium – Astrological Interpretation from Different Perspectives

Looking Back: A Report on the Paradoxical Plausibilities Symposium – Astrological Interpretation from Different Perspectives (13–14 April, Berlin) By Sophia Löwe The question of astrological plausibility seems to spur endless discussions. Most professional astrologers and Read more…

2 years ago May 30, 2019
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Poetic Science: How Literature Conveys Knowledge of Nature

Poetic Science: How Literature Conveys Knowledge of Nature By Kocku von Stuckrad For most non-specialists, much information about the natural world is drawn from newspapers, TV, and popular books. Even scientists are influenced by those Read more…

2 years ago February 20, 2019
Events

Symposium: Paradoxe Plausibilität(en): Astrologische Deutung aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven

Paradoxe Plausibilität(en):  Astrologische Deutung aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven Paradoxical Plausibilities: Astrological Interpretation from Different Perspectives (event conducted in German) An interdisciplinary symposium, co-sponsored by the German Astrologers’ Association and Counterpoint 13–14 April 2019 in Berlin When Read more…

2 years ago September 24, 2018
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What It Means to Deny Climate Change

What It Means to Deny Climate Change By Susannah Crockford  On 26 August 2018, sixty academics, environmentalists, and politicians released an open letter asserting that they will no longer debate with those who deny anthropogenic Read more…

2 years ago September 19, 2018

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