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"Declaration on an academic response to the planetary crisis"
How can we, as academics, respond to the ongoing planetary crisis? The declaration
https://docs.google.com/document/d/165TXefhnIqlpGMkPuWgeGS8lBVhSKf7uVlt6CmIKjT0
identifies seven pragmatic steps we can take.
If you support this initiative, please sign using this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TCrQIIDsJAI6JvOuDOvlzldkrEwhmtCoHOxcy1HlGsc/edit?usp=sharing
This is an initiative of S. Keshav,
Robert Sansom Professor of Computer Science at the
University of Cambridge#FrugalComputing #ClimateEmergency #PlanetaryCrisis
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#1Point5 degrees is not a political target, it is a physical limit.
#ActOnClimate"Dear friends, scientifically, this is not a #ClimateCrisis. We are now facing something deeper. Mass extinction. Air pollution. Undermining ecosystem functions. Really putting humanity’s future at risk. This is a #PlanetaryCrisis."
— Professor
@jrockstromhttps://www.weforum.org/videos/how-16-tipping-points-could-push-our-entire-planet-into-crisis
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Von unserem Twitteraccount:
"Michael Flammer #KlimaVor8
@Jumpsteady
Jul 10
»Dear friends, scientifically, this is not a #ClimateCrisis. We are now facing something deeper. Mass extinction. Air pollution. Undermining ecosystem functions. Really putting humanity’s future at risk. This is a #PlanetaryCrisis.«
— Professor @jrockstrom,
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@PIK_climate Indeed. People in the position of really knowing & crafting the calls to action are failing in their motivational quest thru pure linguistics alone.
Not #ClimateCrisis > #PlanetaryCrisis.
Even #LifeasUsualCrisis.
Not #HumanRights > #HumanExtinction.Imperative to translate #science into mainstream values + vice versa…w/ goal of xforming mainstream values. #UTOK #SystemsChange #SystemicChange #sciencecomms
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If you do nothing else today, please listen to Prof. Johan Rockström's rapid fire presentation opening (the first 3 minutes) at the WEF. The future of your children, indeed the whole of humanity, depends on it and your resulting actions.
#climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #EarthSystem #PlanetaryCrisis #PlanetaryBoundaries #TippingPoints #WEF23 https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2023/sessions/leading-the-charge-through-earths-new-normal
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Are you looking for a PhD position in the field of experimental planetary science? Do you have a background in Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology, or Earth and Planetary Sciences in general?
The ERC Starting Grant group ELMO led by Christian Renggli @bsky.app.profile.renggli.bsky.social is looking for a doctoral researcher to join them: https://www.mps.mpg.de/phd/experimental-laboratory-magma-ocean
Application deadline is 1 June 2026.
#PhDPosition #MPSGoettingen #JobAd #Planetology #PlanetaryScience #EarthScience #Geochemistry #Mineralogy #Petrology #MagmaOcean #Planets #RockyPlanets #Space #Astrodon #SolarSystem #Goettingen #Germany
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[Paper] Varieties of #Anticapitalism: A systematic study of transformation strategies in alternative economic discourses
by Querine Kommandeur, Juliette Alenda-Demoutiez, Maria Kaufmann, Ingrid Visseren-Hamakers. Published January 2025.Abstract
"The confluence of multiple crises has prompted a growing recognition of the need for transformations. Economic systems, including patterns of consumption and production, play a key role in sustainability transformations. The notion that capitalist systems are at the root of current ecological and social crises has led to the emergence of different alternative economic discourses, that seek to address the indirect drivers of #unsustainability. In this article, we aim to contribute to moving the debate beyond critiques of capitalism by focussing on the paths of transformation towards alternatives. To this end, we analyse several alternative economic discourses in order to show the breadth of the debate, and to better understand the roles and strategies of various discourses in societal transformation. Seven discourses are included, of which Buen Vivir, Degrowth and Wellbeing Economy are analysed in-depth. This is done through a systematic analysis of literature published between 2015 and 2022, using an enhanced conceptual framework based on the works of Wright (2019) and Chertkovskaya (2022). Our analysis suggests that the discourses represent different modes of transformation, and that these differences exist both between, as well as within the different discourses. We argue that transformations cannot be achieved through single discourses, or modes of transformation. Rather, concerted efforts of different discourses aimed at addressing indirect drivers of unsustainability can provide the multi-faceted processes of societal change, in which they can support and reinforce one another through alliances and mutual learning."
Introduction
"Humans are putting ever-increasing burdens on the #environment, causing severe damage to #nature (IPBES, 2019; United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development, 2015). This damage is operationalised through the planetary boundaries, showing how several of them have already been crossed, which increases the risk of unleashing #ecosystem changes on a global scale (IPBES, 2019; Lade et al., 2020). Besides the innumerable injustices towards non-humans that result from the destruction of nature, such processes also have severe impacts on structures that sustain human livelihoods, by impacting health and wellbeing, food security and infrastructure (IPCC, 2023; United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development, 2015). These processes are driven by #capitalist accumulation, which relies on the continuous production of new frontiers of accumulation, often through the #exploitation of #MarginalizedCommunities and nature (Moore, 2017). These adverse impacts on nature and people disproportionately affect the most vulnerable people and systems (IPCC, 2023).
"While capitalism manifests itself in a variety of ways across time and place (Hall and Soskice, 2001), there are several fundamental aspects that lie at the heart of its problematic nature. In capitalist societies, societal wealth manifests itself as an accumulation of commodities, and production is oriented towards profit rather than societal needs. Such profits, or surpluses, are extracted and privately appropriated for further expansion, forming the main force of growth. As such processes rely on the continued exploitation of labour and nature, inequality is not an outcome but the foundation of capitalist structures (Brand et al., 2021; Chertkovskaya and Paulsson, 2021; Moore, 2017). The continued inability to decouple environmental degradation from economic growth has made capitalism increasingly questionable in terms of its desirability and sustainability (Parrique et al., 2019). Such capitalist structures, both material, institutional, and discursive, are entrenched in societies, including institutions and governance mechanisms such as nation states and international political regimes, and are underpinned by societal values such as the appropriation of nature and non-human animals as resources to be exploited for human benefit (Brand et al., 2021; IPBES, 2019).
This confluence of multiple crises has prompted a growing recognition of the need for transformations. Since the 2015 inception of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the term “transformation” has gained broad usage among policymakers, academics, activists, and others, resulting in diverse interpretations and literatures. Transformations imply “...changes in the generic societal causes, including institutions, governance structures, developments, power relations, paradigms, goals and values” (Kok et al., 2022, p. 8). The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) defines transformative change as “a fundamental, system-wide reorganisation across technological, economic and social factors, including paradigms, goals and values” (IPBES, 2019, p. 14). Visseren-Hamakers and Kok shift the focus of this definition by replacing ‘system-wide’ with ‘society-wide’, emphasizing changes in general, societal structures (Visseren-Hamakers and Kok, 2022a, p. 8). We therefore consider capitalist structures to be the indirect drivers of unsustainability (IPBES, 2019).
The notion that capitalist systems are at the root of current ecological and social crises has led many activists, civil society groups, academics, policymakers, and politicians to seek for alternative economic approaches that focus on justice and sustainability (Charonis, 2021; Westra et al., 2017). We consider alternative economic discourses to be embedded in broader transformation discourses, as they address, to varying degrees, the indirect drivers of sustainability. While alternative economic discourses are generally strong in imagining alternatives, working towards such alternatives requires strategic efforts (Barlow et al., 2022; Visseren-Hamakers and Kok, 2022b). The main objective of this article is to elucidate how various alternative economic discourses align with and differ from each other concerning their modes and strategies of transformation as presented in the academic literature. To do this, this article builds on the work of (Wright, 2019), who conceptualises different ‘modes’ of transformation, i.e., sets of strategies that have been historically important in anti-capitalist struggles. Chertkovskaya (2022) expands on this framework to better capture the efforts of alternative economic movements. We further build upon both Wright's original conceptualisation and Chertkovskaya's additions to develop the framework further (Chertkovskaya, 2022)."This paper contributes to the literature on #PostCapitalism and transformations by providing a comprehensive overview of different modes and strategies of transformation by focusing on the Degrowth, Buen Vivir and Wellbeing Economy discourse. In doing so, we aim to contribute to moving the debate beyond critiques of capitalism by focussing on the paths of transformation towards alternatives. Through our categorization, we facilitate a more conscious reflection on often implicit approaches to change while also revealing sensitivity to similarities and nuances within and between the discourses, showing the breadth of the debate (Sandberg and Alvesson, 2021). The selected discourses are #BuenVivir, Degrowth, #DoughnutEconomics, Economy for the #CommonGood, Foundational Economy, Social and #Solidarity Economy, and Wellbeing Economy. We first provide a brief overview of these seven alternative discourses and then proceed to an in-depth examination of the Buen Vivir, Degrowth, and Wellbeing Economy discourses."
Read more:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800924003203
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Der #Podcast Patho?Logisch zum Thema Planetary Health ein Interview mit Katharina Kewitz von der H4F-Ortsgruppe #Lübeck und Arbeitsgruppe Presse
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Researchers have analyzed the shifting patterns of entire dune fields on Earth and Mars, as seen from orbit, and found they are a direct signature of recent environmental change. This new tool can be applied anywhere with dunes. We can use dune patterns to better understand the environmental changes on any planetary body that harbours dunes, including Venus, Earth, Mars, Titan, Io, and Pluto. #DunePatterns #EnvironmentalChange #PlanetaryBodies https://www.eurasiareview.com/06082023-dune-patterns-reveal-environmental-change-on-earth-and-other-planets/
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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4867-4872: Sand Fill In Antofagasta Crater and Finding Our Next Drill Target
Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
#Mars #Curiosity #rover #crater #Antofagasta #AntofagastaCrater #mosaic #photography #CuriosityRover #space #science #astrodon #news
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Von der Venus lernen - Verbindung von #Erdsystemwissenschaften mit #Planetenwissenschaften: @volkswagenst fördert neue Tenure-Track-Professur „Earth and Planetary #Geodynamics“ an der #UniFreiburg.
ufr.link/unr-erdsystemwissenschaften
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Calling all #GraphicDesigners & #Artists! Here's your chance to become part of space history!
Design a mission patch for the #Milani #CubeSat, flying with
@ESA's #HeraMission for #PlanetaryDefence to the #Dimorphos #asteroid #MilaniPatchContest
https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Hera/Design_the_patch_for_Hera_s_Milani_CubeSat
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NASA Research Shows Path Toward Protocells on Titan https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/planetary-science/astrobiology/path-toward-protocells-on-titan/ #NASA #Astrobiology #Planets #Saturn #SaturnMoons #TheSolarSystem #Titan
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New chapter on the Buzzwordcene https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-15654-0.00024-4
Challenging #Anthropocene #SocialEcologicalSystems #PlanetaryBoundaries #EarthSystemBoundaries #SocialCapital #ClimateCrisis and more.
See also:
1. https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/2023/01/25/planetary-boundaries-a-framework-against-geodynamics
2. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003017653-16/planetary-boundaries-ilan-kelman
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Can we listen to Titan’s heartbeat? Icequakes as a window into a hidden ocean.
What lies beneath the surface of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon? This question is central to the upcoming Dragonfly mission, which will deploy a drone equipped with scientific instruments on Titan’s surface in the coming years. Among them is a seismometer designed to record ground vibrations. But does Titan shake enough for such instruments to detect anything meaningful? A new study led by an international team, including researchers from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, provides […] -
Studies of 1400 Planetary Nebulae Uncover Previously Unknown Details - YouTube
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30+ years later MechWarrior 2's planetary mission startup still gives me goosebumps. never heard a better Betty/voice warning system voice in a game since this one, period.
just seeing a dos game running in 1024x768 in 1995 was an awe-inspiring experience
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Big Picture Science for Mar. 09, 2026: Skeptic Check: Moon Conspiracy
As NASA’s Artemis program promises to take us back to the moon for the first time in fifty years, we consider what it means that as many as 10% of Americans don’t believe we went there in the first place. Why, despite all the evidence, has the faked moon landing conspiracy persisted? We explore why this falsehood has such staying power and what it reveals about our relationship with science and its findings.
Meanwhile, lunar science continues unabated. Scientists open a lunar soil sample that’s been vacuumed sealed for a half-century and receive a blast of four and a half billion-year-old solar wind.
Guests:
* Peter Knight – professor of American Studies, English and American Studies and conspiracy expert at the University of Manchester, U.K.
* Ryan Zeigler – planetary scientist and NASA’s Lunar Sample Curator at Johnson Space CenterDownload podcast at - https://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/skeptic-check-moon-conspiracy
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#Moon #Conspiracy #BigPictureScience #SETI #News #Podcast #Science
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Big Picture Science for Mar. 02, 2026: Chasing an Asteroid
REPEAT
Everyone knows that a big rock wiped out the dinosaurs. But the danger from an asteroid hitting Earth is not limited to ancient history. To deal with this threat, scientists recently ran an experiment to deflect a potential “city killer.” We’ll hear the results of that experiment, and about a visit to another asteroid. In the dusty material NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists found the chemical building blocks of life, including many of the amino acids that are found in our cells. Could an asteroid have brought the ingredients for life to ancient Earth? In this episode, we look at our paradoxical relationship with the space rocks that taketh way – and may help giveth - life.Guests:
* Scott Sandford - Astrophysicist and Research Scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center
* Robin George Andrews - Science journalist, volcanologist, and author of "How to Kill an Asteroid: The Real Science of Planetary Defense"Originally aired February 10, 2025
Download podcast at - https://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/chasing-an-asteroid
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Big Picture Science for Feb. 16, 2026: Celestial Shake-Up
We’re going back to the Moon. The planned March 2026 launch of Artemis II is the first crewed mission to the moon since 1972. Historic as it is, it isn’t the only lunar event creating a stir at NASA. Two seismometers are to be delivered to Schrödinger’s Crater in a mission called The Farside Seismic Suite, in which the instruments will measure moonquakes and record the possible impact of asteroid 2024 YR4 on lunar surface. Meanwhile, studies of the sun are heating up. The so-called PUNCH mission, a four-satellite constellation that will create an image of the sun’s corona and solar winds, may help us better understand what drives solar storms and how we can protect Earth from their energetic blasts.
Guests:
* Eugene Cernan – Apollo 17 astronaut
* Harrison "Jack" Schmitt – Geologist and Apollo 17 astronaut
* Andrew Rivkin – Planetary astronomer at the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University
* Ceri Nunn – Lunar seismologist and planetary scientist, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
* Ryan French – solar physicist, at the Laboratory for Atmospheric & Space Physics, Boulder, Colorado, and author of “Space Hazards: Asteroids, Solar Flares and Cosmic Threats”
* Craig DeForest – Heliophysicist, Southwest Research Institute, principal investigator on NASA’s PUNCH missionDownload podcast at - https://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/celestial-shake-up
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Big Picture Science for Feb. 09, 2026: Hot to Cold
There are benefits to chilling out. When we cool superconductors to 460℉ degrees below zero, they acquire extraordinary properties that help run quantum computers. Can artificially cooling human bodies also provide profound benefit? Some cryonics startup companies say yes, promising “life after death” through cryogenic freezing. While it’s one thing to freeze all the cells in a body, it is another to revive them. What happens, for instance, to memories when brains thaw? While we gauge how low human body temperatures can go, new research suggests another form of life could find home in the cooler temperatures of Jupiter’s moon Europa. Find out how NASA’s Europa Clipper mission will investigate whether that moon could support alien microbes.
Guests:
* Steve Austad – Distinguished Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Scientific Director of the American Federation for Aging Research
* Olivia Lanes – Global Lead for Quantum Content and Education at IBM Quantum
* Austin Green – Planetary Scientist, NASA’s Jet Propulsion LaboratoryDownload podcast at - https://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/hot-to-cold
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Big Picture Science for Jan. 26, 2026: Cold to Hot
The icy-white crust of Arctic permafrost is melting, and increased plant growth is turning the glacial north green. Metals like iron, once locked inside the ice, are leaching into hundreds of Arctic rivers, giving them an orange hue. Vivid changes may catch our eye, yet invisible shifts are also afoot. Microbes locked in the frozen ground since the age of the mammoths can now be revived when they thaw. We’re exploring the consequences of changes in permafrost, how AI may help us better understand Greenland ice loss, and get reactions from scientists about the Trump administration’s attempt to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), one of the premier climate and weather researcher centers in the world.
Guests:
* Tristan Caro – Postdoctoral Fellow, Geological and Planetary Sciences Division, California Institute of Technology
* Twila Moon – Glaciologist and deputy lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, within the cooperative Institute for Research and Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder
* Abagael Pruitt – Biochemist and ecosystem ecologist, postdoctoral researcher at the University of California Davis
* Karina Zikan – Glaciologist and snow hydrologist, PhD candidate at Boise State University
* Roland Pease – Science writer and broadcaster often heard on the BBC World Service, and former presenter and host of its program Science in Action
* Alan Sealls – Retired broadcast meteorologist, adjust professor at the University of South Alabama and president of the American Meteorological SocietyDownload podcast at - https://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/cold-to-hot
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#Arctic #Permafrost #BigPictureScience #SETI #News #Podcast #Science
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ig Picture Science for Jan. 12, 2026: Life in the Solar System
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Spewing lava and belching noxious fumes, volcanoes seem hostile to biology. But the search for life off-Earth includes the hunt for these hotheads on other moons and planets, and we tour some of the most imposing volcanoes in the Solar System.Plus, a look at how tectonic forces reshape bodies from the moon to Venus to Earth. And a journey to the center of our planet reveals a surprising layer of material at the core-mantle boundary. Find out where this layer was at the time of the dinosaurs and what powerful forces drove it deep below.
Guests:
* Samantha Hansen – Geologist at the University of Alabama
* Paul Byrne – Associate professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
* Robin George Andrews – Science journalist and author of “Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond”
Originally aired May 29, 2023Download podcast at - https://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/life-in-the-solar-system
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We
Have already had to adjust our theories of planetary motion,
And so, too, we shall gradually learn to recognize
That what we call fate originates in ourselves, in humankind, and does not work on us from the outside. ()
Many people () in panic () swore to never have found anything of the sort in themselves before. ()
Someone transported from his room, () without warning and interval, onto the top of a high mountain would feel () virtually destroyed by an unparalleled sense of insecurity, by an exposure to something nameless. He would think he was falling or believe himself to be hurtling out into space or shattered into a thousand pieces ()
For one who becomes solitary, many such changes suddenly take place at once and, as with the man on the mountaintop, unusual imaginings and curious sensations occur which seem to be take on dimensions greater than can be tolerated.
But it is necessary for us to experience this too.
We must accept our existence in as wide a sense as can be; everything, even the unheard of, must be possible within it.
That,
When you come down to it,
Is the only kind of courage that is demanded of us:
The courage of the oddest,
The most unexpected,
The most inexplicable
Things that we may encounter. ()
Human beings have been cowardly in this regard ()
The experiences we describe as ‘apparitions’, the entire so-called ‘spirit world’, death
All those things so closely akin to us
Have by our daily rejection of them been
Forced so far from our lives that
The senses with which we might apprehend them
Have atrophied. ()
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 –1926)
Borgeby, gard, Fladie, Sweden, 12. August, 1904
Excerpts
3/6, p01
#poem #poetry #individuality #authenticity #sovereignty #tolerance #reconciliation #letterlab #source #zero #writing #letterportals #wordpuzzles #programming #perception #encryption #code #polarity #one #unity #binity #trinity #quadrinity #singularity #duality #ternity #quaternity #p01 #fediverse #exquisitesocial
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We
Have already had to adjust our theories of planetary motion,
And so, too, we shall gradually learn to recognize
That what we call fate originates in ourselves, in humankind, and does not work on us from the outside. ()
Many people () in panic () swore to never have found anything of the sort in themselves before. ()
Someone transported from his room, () without warning and interval, onto the top of a high mountain would feel () virtually destroyed by an unparalleled sense of insecurity, by an exposure to something nameless. He would think he was falling or believe himself to be hurtling out into space or shattered into a thousand pieces ()
For one who becomes solitary, many such changes suddenly take place at once and, as with the man on the mountaintop, unusual imaginings and curious sensations occur which seem to be take on dimensions greater than can be tolerated.
But it is necessary for us to experience this too.
We must accept our existence in as wide a sense as can be; everything, even the unheard of, must be possible within it.
That,
When you come down to it,
Is the only kind of courage that is demanded of us:
The courage of the oddest,
The most unexpected,
The most inexplicable
Things that we may encounter. ()
Human beings have been cowardly in this regard ()
The experiences we describe as ‘apparitions’, the entire so-called ‘spirit world’, death
All those things so closely akin to us
Have by our daily rejection of them been
Forced so far from our lives that
The senses with which we might apprehend them
Have atrophied. ()
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 –1926)
Borgeby, gard, Fladie, Sweden, 12. August, 1904
Excerpts
3/6, p01
#poem #poetry #individuality #authenticity #sovereignty #tolerance #reconciliation #letterlab #source #zero #writing #letterportals #wordpuzzles #programming #perception #encryption #code #polarity #one #unity #binity #trinity #quadrinity #singularity #duality #ternity #quaternity #p01 #fediverse #exquisitesocial
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We
Have already had to adjust our theories of planetary motion,
And so, too, we shall gradually learn to recognize
That what we call fate originates in ourselves, in humankind, and does not work on us from the outside. ()
Many people () in panic () swore to never have found anything of the sort in themselves before. ()
Someone transported from his room, () without warning and interval, onto the top of a high mountain would feel () virtually destroyed by an unparalleled sense of insecurity, by an exposure to something nameless. He would think he was falling or believe himself to be hurtling out into space or shattered into a thousand pieces ()
For one who becomes solitary, many such changes suddenly take place at once and, as with the man on the mountaintop, unusual imaginings and curious sensations occur which seem to be take on dimensions greater than can be tolerated.
But it is necessary for us to experience this too.
We must accept our existence in as wide a sense as can be; everything, even the unheard of, must be possible within it.
That,
When you come down to it,
Is the only kind of courage that is demanded of us:
The courage of the oddest,
The most unexpected,
The most inexplicable
Things that we may encounter. ()
Human beings have been cowardly in this regard ()
The experiences we describe as ‘apparitions’, the entire so-called ‘spirit world’, death
All those things so closely akin to us
Have by our daily rejection of them been
Forced so far from our lives that
The senses with which we might apprehend them
Have atrophied. ()
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 –1926)
Borgeby, gard, Fladie, Sweden, 12. August, 1904
Excerpts
3/6, p01
#poem #poetry #individuality #authenticity #sovereignty #tolerance #reconciliation #letterlab #source #zero #writing #letterportals #wordpuzzles #programming #perception #encryption #code #polarity #one #unity #binity #trinity #quadrinity #singularity #duality #ternity #quaternity #p01 #fediverse #exquisitesocial
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⚡ Consciousness is costly 🧠
The brain is nature’s most energy-hungry organ.
With language and culture, it gave us civilization and planetary dominance – but at a high price.
Prof. Daniel C. Dennett warns: the same costly adaptation that built our world could also threaten our future.
📺 https://youtu.be/M2qiVz95ZYk
📎 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/12/25/naturalistic-view/
#DanielDennett #Consciousness #Evolution #PhilosophyOfMind #Zoomposium
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Of course, a discussion among politicians won't get #Pluto reclassified back as a planet. Scientists & astronomers decide criteria for a planet. Pluto is either in or out of that definition.
I wonder what criteria that would define Pluto as a planet would not also apply to our Moon, a.k.a. Luna. Are we ready for Earth🌎/Luna🌗 to be officially a binary planet system? After trying to be the center of our universe for all of history, could we take that step? #astronomy #planetary #science
