"The noble but undervalued craft of maintenance could help preserve modernity’s finest achievements, from public transit systems to power grids, and serve as a useful framework for addressing climate change and other pressing planetary _...Read More_

>"A growing body of research suggests human behavior on social media is strikingly similar to collective behavior in nature."

"Advanced technologies like A.I. are enabling scientists to learn that the world is full of intelligent creatures with sophisticated languages, like honeybees. What might they tell us?"

>"“All things share the same breath—the beast, the tree, the man. The air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.” —Chief Seattle Keeping the Gretas in School As the Greta Thunberg movement of school strikes has put on display, _...Read More_

"Embracing electric cars and the batteries that power them inflates the need for mining. Is this an environmental paradox? Or are there more important questions to ask?"

"Eric Voegelin and Hans Kelsen fled the Nazis. In the US, they clashed over the nature of modernity and government"

"Focusing too much on personal behavior or consumption choices is a strategic blunder for those who want to make the world better."

"Technology often presupposes human domination, but it could instead reflect our ecological dependence"

"If we humans are going to gain a better understanding of the vibrant world around us — and the damage we are doing to it — we’re going to need a new conception of nonhuman intelligence."

"The German philosopher Martin Heidegger famously remarked back in the 1960s that the advent of cybernetics meant the end of Western metaphysics. What do you think he meant by this comment? And to what extent do you agree?"

"The Autocene is a period in which all of Earth’s systems have been altered by machines. The design challenge is directing the trajectory—the Autocene we have today may be the antithesis or apotheosis of the Autocene to come."

>"Electric vehicle makers are grappling with our olfactory attachment to the fuel."

>"They’re not cuddly, they don’t behave at all like us – yet they are sentient. Why fish belong in the moral community"

>"A new origins-based system for classifying minerals reveals the huge geochemical imprint that life has left on Earth. It could help us identify other worlds with life too."