The gut-brain axis is the network of nerves that connect your brain and gut and send signals back and forth. Your nervous system works closely with your endocrine system. Your brain closely with your entire body.
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Perspective: Despite all our accomplishments we owe our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact it rains.
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Global forest loss exceeds targets in 2023, report warns - "Rate of forest loss last year remained 45 percent above levels needed to halt deforestation by 2030."
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In complex, self-organizing systems like animals, plasmas, and crystals, filtering and composting abundant information is far more crucial than creating new information.
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Dark design patterns. The majority of privacy settings on modern digital infrastructure is exactly this.
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We must think very carefully about how we use AI's immense power. Will we continue destroying the natural world at ever-faster rates, or come to our senses and start respecting and protecting the real treasure of intelligence on planet Earth? It's time to choose wisely.
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Building distributed, community-owned microgrids is the 21st-century power move. Combine that with renewables (Swanson’s law is key), decentralized wireless communications, and decentralized manufacturing (3D printing, including weapons), and you've got a revolution.
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Us self-important hairless monkeys should pause our gadget obsessions and ego trips for a sec, and focus on the 90% decline in old-growth forests and the dramatic drop in river health globally over the past few hundreds of years. The situation is truly insane.
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Butterflies accumulate enough static electricity to attract pollen without contact (Paper)
Butterflies and moths collect so much static electricity whilst in flight, that pollen grains from flowers can be pulled by static electricity across air gaps of several millimetres or centimetres.
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Who Owns the Water? - Book by Lars Müller, Klaus Lanz, Christian Rentsch, and René Schwarzenbach
The single most valuable resource in the 21st century is water. One billion people have no reliable access to clean drinking water; two billion live in precarious hygienic conditions. Water is an instrument of power. A key question is, who owns the water? https://www.lars-mueller-publishers.com/who-owns-water
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In just six years (2016-2021), we've consumed over 75% of what we did over the 20th century.
Source: The circular gap report 2024 (Page 8, Executive Summary, Para 1) and Page 19, where it is mentioned more specifically (582 billion tonnes) along with the years (2016-21)
