Dec 24, 2020

December

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The Secret Random Acts of Kindness Society  Purpose: Increase kindness and wellbeing in the planet, doing little (or bigger) things, accordi...
Dec 21, 2020

December

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“(…) she no longer felt she was there simply to serve the dreams of other people. She no longer felt like she had to find sole fulfilment as...
Dec 13, 2020

Underland

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“We find speaking of the Anthropocene, even in Anthropocene, difficult. It is, perhaps, best imagined as an epoch of loss – of spe...
Dec 12, 2020

December

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“If the composition of the air we breath depends on living beings, the atmosphere is no longer simply the environment in which living beings...
Dec 7, 2020

December

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“Buddhism. Stoicism. Epicureanism. Christianity. Hinduism. It’s all but impossible to find a philosophical school or religion that does not ...
Nov 20, 2020

November

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I have been hacked. Still trying to figure out the extension and number of hacked accounts.  I have changed my passwords a couple of times, ...
Nov 18, 2020

November

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  My computer does not allow me to uninstall Xbox Network and it connects by itself. Microsoft does not let users decide what games they wan...
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Nov 16, 2020

Systemic risks

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"The first generation of AI-enabled offensive tools is already emerging and there is growing evidence of AI being used by attackers. De...

Cyber criminals

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"Attackers will often use a tool called a ‘web inject’ to monitor the internet browsing of an infected user. When the victim attempts ...
Nov 9, 2020

November

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IP 89.40.182.187
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Nov 2, 2020

November

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Sep 22, 2020

September

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"Stillness presents a break or pause in the flow of habitual events, whilst illuminating temporal gaps and fissures within which altern...
Aug 20, 2020

August

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" The stories illustrate that biodiversity, climate and inequality are inseparable agendas. (...) The biodiversity community needs to m...
Jun 28, 2020

June

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"A certain conception of «nature» has allowed the Moderns to occupy the Earth in such a way that it forbids others to occupy their own...
Jun 20, 2020

June

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Resilience "is a passive process, implying the ability to absorb blows and get back up. Regeneration, on the other hand is active: ...
Jun 8, 2020

June

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Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA ( CC ).
May 29, 2020

May

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“The information society is like a tree that has been growing its far-reaching branches much more widely, hastily, and chaotically than its...
May 24, 2020

May

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“Growing our connections to nature will allow us to push past mere intellect to embrace sensory experiences, emotions, intuition. (…) For t...
May 22, 2020

May

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“(…) whenever suitable conditions to move demand and supply closer can be identified by reducing the number of technological and human i...
May 14, 2020

May

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   «The new Earth 2.0 that will emerge after COVID‑19 will be a “new normal”, but many fundamental challenges will still exist. Chief a...
May 13, 2020

(re)growth

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  Define growth: the process of increasing in size. the upward growth of plants. the process of developing physically, mentally, or spi...

mobility

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 Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA (CC).
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May 8, 2020

May

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“We are nature. When we stand firm on that undeniable fact, shedding the long-standing illusion that there’s nature “out there” and the...
May 7, 2020

May

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“Expectation, fantasy and reality are intermingled on the surface of our skin, a stage on which our life is played out. (…) Touch is e...
May 5, 2020

May

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"In categorical thinking the boundaries are drawn. But mystery is open-ended, messy, full of promise, and lacking in certainty. (.....
May 3, 2020

May

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Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA (CC).
Apr 30, 2020

April

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"Given enough solitude and enough time, the mind shifts into default mode and pans through connections that at first seem wholly rando...
Apr 29, 2020

April

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“It is a matter of broadening the definitions of class by pursuing an exhaustive search for everything that makes subsistence possible. As ...
Apr 18, 2020

April

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“(…) it’s time to wake up the tissues of perception that have been there all along. We are nature. When we stand firm on that undeniabl...
Apr 15, 2020

Diversity

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"(...) trees and plants aren´t simply competing with one another. (...) Instead, over millions of years vegetation has built vast c...
Mar 20, 2020

March

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"Wherever you are now, however urban or interior your life, nature is still there for you - anchoring, inspiring, helping you bec...
Mar 3, 2020

March

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Carbon dioxide (CO2) sink in the city / Sumidouro de dióxido de carbono (CO2) citadino. Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA ( C...
Feb 27, 2020

Symbiosis

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"Mutualism is a subset of symbiosis in which there exists between organisms a prolonged relationship that is interdependent and reci...
Feb 18, 2020

February

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"It was so long ago that my mind softens even the sharpest features, melting memories into liquid pain. (...) It's odd how fac...
Feb 14, 2020

February

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" no one told us that love was the hardest craft to master " by Elif Shafak (2014). The Architect's Apprentice. Image by ...
Feb 6, 2020

February

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  "Living wood, left long enough, behaves as a slow-moving fluid." Robert MacFarlane, 2019. Underland: a deep time journey. I...