Technology

Toward the Breaking Point | John Michael Greer

June 2, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- The great changes, the changes that matter, don’t always announce themselves with the blare of amplified voices or the distant thunder of cannons and bombs. As often as not they take place quietly, moving unnoticed through the crawlspaces of society, and it takes an attentive ear to subtle cues and whispers in the night to catch what’s happening while it’s still in ...

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Fake News + Bad Journalism = The New Normal — Mickey Z.

(Media Burn) Mickey Z. — World News Trust June 9, 2021 I’ve been interviewed dozens and dozens of times. Those experiences have sometimes left me shaking my head when I’d find factual errors in the e ...

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'Nihao Mars': China's Zhurong Rover Touches Down On Red Planet | Sébastien Ricci

Mars (seen in an image released on March 3, 2021 taken by China's Tianwen-1 probe which carried the rover) is the the most prestigious of all prizes in the competition for dominion of space. May 15, ...

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Birds vs. Tweets: Which Sounds Are You Tuned Into? — Mickey Z.

European Starlings (Photo: Rachel Wood/Great Backyard Bird Count) Mickey Z. — World News Trust May 3, 2021 While walking in my neighborhood the other day, I heard a beautiful and astonishingly comple ...

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How an E-Mail from AOC Made Me Question the COVID-19 Death Count — Mickey Z.

(Instagram screenshot) Mickey Z. — World News Trust April 22, 2021 On April 6, 2021, I got an email from the offices of AOC (she’s my congressperson) informing me that “those who lost loved ones to C ...

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Pentagon COVID Microchips: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust April 16, 2021 I looked up “irony” in the dictionary the other day and found a video of a contemporary human being declaring: “I’ll put up with health passports to get my ...

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The Algorithm is Gonna Get You — Mickey Z.

(credit unknown) Mickey Z. — World News Trust April 12, 2021 "This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the o ...

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Reversible CRISPR Method Controls Gene Expression Leaving DNA Sequence Unchanged | Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

A new CRISPR method allows researchers to silence most genes in the human genome without altering the underlying DNA sequence -- and then reverse the changes. Credit: Jennifer Cook-Chrysos/Whitehead ...

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7 Reasons Why I Haven’t Gotten the Vaccine — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust April 5, 2021 Take a look at the screenshot above. It is Facebook’s manipulative method of shutting down dissent on Covid-19 vaccines. But re-read it carefully. We’re bei ...

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Gene Expression And Neurological Disease Heritability | Ingrid Fadelli

Photo credit: Penn State March 17, 2021 (MedicalXpress) -- The expression of genes in response to neuronal activity can significantly influence the human brain's development over time. While many neu ...

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Strange Days Dawning | John Michael Greer

Back slowly away from the crazy person Brace for serious trouble March 3, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- Late in 2019, I wrote a series of posts entitled “Dancers at the End of Time,” sketching out certain ...

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