With the arrival of Peak Oil, the curtain has closed on Act 1 of the drama Petroleum Man. What will happen in Act 2? Chekhov said, "If there's a gun on the wall at the beginning of the play, by the end it must go off." In the world's nuclear arsenal are many guns on the wall. If life copies art, will there be an Act 3 in which the players, having learned their lesson the hard way, live sustainably? To explore these and other questions... FTW's Act 2 Blog. Read, comment, take heart! Orkin
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
From Jenna Orkin
Millions of very hungry spongy moth caterpillars are munching their way through U.S. forests, enabled by drought.
Researchers are developing AI tools that can quickly detect and debunk false or misleading claims about climate change.
Numerous studies of news coverage of protests--including both left-wing and right-wing protests--show that journalists follow an uninformative template of ignoring the actual issues of the protest, writes Douglas M. McLeod, a professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Rather than report on issues, mass media follows a kind of "protest paradigm," by highlighting rude or violent behavior, disparaging non-normative personalities among protestors, and minimizing the effectiveness of protests.
It's fascinating that multiple phases of sleep contribute to "cleaning out" parts of the brain. While immersive dream REM sleep serves to wash away some emotional distress overnight, researchers also think that cerebral spinal fluid flushes out toxins from the brain during non-REM sleep. I hope you spent solid time in all phases of sleep this weekend.
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