Peter Barus
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The Long Con (opens the original)
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News that the latest "generative" surveillance-bots have "escaped" or "gone rogue" on some insufficiently-guarded Robbie, was alarming. News that the purveyors of these machines have warned the world to "slow down" was alarming. Any "news" that is not more alarming than the last "news" will never see screen time. So why is this "news" now? After all the failed exams, cheating scandals, cooked books, plagiarized books, fake scientific citations, fake scientific studies, bogus doctoral dissertatio
Exhilarating and exhausting (opens the original)
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It is both exhilarating and exhausting to be building a museum of natural history from scratch. More so doing it in Palestine, a land under colonization, ongoing genocide, and ethnic cleansing. The past few weeks have been especially busy. New volunteers, exhibits taking shape, new research papers, many visitors streaming here daily. The facilities are being developed: new seed bank rooms, new biodiversity dioramas taking shape, a kitchen, a cafeteria, a gift shop, a Palestine hall (including Pa
Change and more (opens the original)
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Variation, Selection, and the Evolution of Nature and Society (new and relevant blog article by Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh): One of the most powerful ideas in science is also one of the simplest: things change, and a changing and complex environment decides which changes survive. In biology that's the whole engine of evolution and we can draw lessons from that to the accelerating pace of social evolution and changing paradigms. Read more. Article in French on (our) nature as resistance. Charlie Kirk,
The Trap (opens the original)
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A visitor from another planet, seeing people following dogs around on a leash and picking up their poop in little baggies, would have to wonder: who would they be taken to if they said, "take me to your leader"? Marijuana was a weed that only grew in special environments for millions of years, until people came along and provided optimal nutrients, soils, moisture and light, everywhere on the planet they went. Toxoplasma Gondii is a parasite that fixes the brains of mice so they don't fear cats,
How much longer? (opens the original)
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Dear friends Tomorrow (Thursday) we have our monthly meetings where we review accomplishments of the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability (first hour) then we discuss what the sociopolitical situation in our region and globally (secondd hour/segment). Let me know if you want to join either and I send you a link. But here briefly I do want to say that our institute is evolving and is highly needed and effective in our society though we would like it to grow faster to meet growi
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