Our Troubled Earth in a Vast and Beautiful Cosmos

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Ralph Metzner

These photos are spectacular. They help remind us of our place in the greater cosmos. From back-garden enthusiasts to professional photographers – the Royal Observatory in Greenwich received hundreds of entries for its 2010 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. The winning images include solar eclipses, close-up views of the moon, and vast distant galaxies [...]

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Terminal Illness of the Global Energy System and Prospects for Recovery

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Ralph Metzner

The slow-motion collapse of the fossil-fuel based global industrial civilization is the unspoken elephant in the room of  main-stream media discussion of politics and economics. To even try to confront the awesome reality that a 200 year period of economic growth and the associated population explosion is heading for a cliff-edge unprecedented in human history [...]

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The Empire that Pretends Not to Be One

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Ralph Metzner

Most Americans have been brought up with the fiction that America is a land of ever-expanding freedom and democracy, which it exports to a grateful world. Empires, with their cycles of growth and collapse, were a thing of the past – the most recent example being the British Empire, which basically imploded during and shortly [...]

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Poetry for Turbulent Times: by Robinson Jeffers

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Ralph Metzner

The Answer Then what is the answer? – Not to be deluded by dreams. To know that great civilizations have broken down into violence, and their tyrants come, many times before. When open violence appears, to avoid it with honor  or choose the least ugly faction; these evils are essential. To keep one’s own integrity, [...]

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From the front lines of psychedelic research: Ketamine as an anti-depressant

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Ralph Metzner

Science, 20 August 2010: Vol. 329. no. 5994, pp. 959 – 964 A team of researchers from Yale University report that ketamine, a drug normally used as an anasthetic, could be reformulated as an anti-depressant that takes effect in hours rather than the usual weeks and months of most available medications. The study was done [...]

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From the front lines of Climate Change: Greenland Ice Sheet Melting

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Ralph Metzner

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/greenland The entire ice mass covering Greenland will disappear from the world map if temperatures rise by as little as 2C, with severe consequences for the rest of the world, a panel of scientists told Congress in August. An enormous chunk of ice, roughly 97 square miles in size, has broken off the Petermann Glacier [...]

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