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I never make posts like these. But with everything that's going on right now, a quarter of the world being in lockdown, finding myself locked out of my home, knowing people recovering through COVID-19,

Breathtaking New York Times Article about science, politics and global warming This is by far the best story about the scientific discovery of global warming and the subsequent politic action (or non-action)

Hello there, Steemians. Now that climate protests are clearly on the rise, attempts to minimize what is at stake are also being increased. In many ways, the severity of climate change and its causes are

I had started writing a fairly extensive essay on the complexities of what we call, sometimes very naively, Circular Economy. But I doubt anyone would read it. So I've decided to do something much shorter

The earth's climate is full of balances that developed over time. But balances can be altered and some are characterized by a tipping point. This tipping point is a critical threshold at which a balance

The guy in the hat is the founder of SingularityNET, some blockchain + decentralized AI project. I bought the tokens, but after studying its technicalities, I'm not quite as convinced as the work going

The appearance of Neolithic concepts in Europe had important impacts on societies. People shifted from hunting and gathering wild plants towards domesticating plants and animals in order to secure their

Grundrisse 1. Introduction. Ideology. Projection. Point of Departure. Independent Individuals. Eighteenth-century Ideas I’m currently reading the Grundrisse. More abstract and difficult then Das Kapital,

People love to bring this up to defend capitalism. "Socialism kills innovation!" they like to say. "Look at IBM, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google... Capitalism clearly creates the kind of

Steemstem.io (Beta)! For a long time, steemSTEM has been on a path of growth. Once a small group of friends curating on the old Steem chat, we are now a thriving community spread all around the world and

Though I haven't yet finished my Geology and Civilization series, I'm getting an early start on my next series- mostly because I just felt more inspired to write this today. This probably won't be a series

Source Introduction Hello guys! With this really short article I would like to provoke discussion about a really recent and interesting issue, which has been widely discussed. I personally think that there's

After a few irreverent posts/comments and a shamelessly clickbait title right above, here's an entirely earnest one. It continues from a comment I made recently, in response to kevinwong's post and smooth's

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 It may have come to your attention that the past couple of articles in this series have been discussing our use of natural resources. This is quite deliberate, and the early parts

What can we, scientists, do for Steem, and in particular what can we do that others cannot do as easily? I have thought about it a lot (i.e. more than usual) during this last month (I think some may guess

--How to: Anarchist-- Anarchism is a Political Philosophy with a long history, and with long histories also come long winded criticisms of the practice. But i see a lot of talk about Anarchism, but not

I’m sorry, I can’t do this anymore. Almost 10 months ago, I joined Steemit with only one goal: To keep people from learning the truth. I wrote posts about vaccines, cancer, misguided conspiracy theorists,

When I was in high school, I read Plato’s Republic and remember this odd notion that only philosophers ought to rule. If you want to have a righteous king, then you must have a philosopher king. In Plato’s

Aliens in cinema have a tendency towards being human-like. In Star Trek, for instance, the aliens have a tendency to be humanoids that homogenously reflect an aspect of humanity. Vulcans are our rationality,