Thursday, May 14, 2026

Tag: humanity

Illegitimate power, illegitimate violence: How nations are built on the backs...

True justice begins at birth, not in systems that mask inequality with the language of freedom and hide civil erasure behind institutional power.

80 years after Trinity

The atomic nightmare, then, and now.

Humanity’s shrinking window: Reversing the Amazon’s slide toward the tipping point

A closer look at the Amazon’s declining health and its global implications.

Not as simple as 1, 2, 3: Humanity has a surprisingly...

Language plays an important role in understanding the concept of numbers.

The growing movement to bring back community grief and ritual

A free and open community grief-tending event in Berkeley, California, set an example for coming to terms with loss—of people we love and of nature.

A promising new project to organize humanity’s universal heritage

An international group of researchers and data scientists are creating a comprehensive database of the world’s archaeological knowledge—and changing our understanding of humans’ prehistoric heritage.

By 2030, poor nations will need $2.4 trillion per year to...

"Humanity has a choice: cooperate or perish. It is either a climate solidarity pact—or a collective suicide pact."

An obituary for our world

Yes, my obituary is a given, but humanity’s should be so much less so.

Increasing disasters are ‘setting humanity on a spiral of self-destruction,’ UN...

“The financial system really needs to get ahead of this curve, because otherwise there’s a lot of built-up risk that isn’t being priced into how we make decisions.”

Societies can prevent wars from starting—and the future of humanity requires...

Experts in peace and conflict studies explain the scientific evidence that societies can choose peace, and that warfare is also a choice, not a necessity.

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The researchers found that 100 percent of the plant-based meat substitutes contained at least one of 19 different types of mycotoxins, often showing high "co-occurrence" (multiple toxins in a single product).

Supreme Court rulings and new Southern maps intensify battle over Black voting power before...

A series of redistricting fights in Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia is reshaping the struggle over voting rights and congressional control as critics warn that recent Supreme Court decisions are accelerating the erosion of protections for Black voters.

The electric car is the only winner in the latest Iran war

The Hormuz Choke Point and the Twilight of Petroleum.

The US-China tech race, resource wars, and the cost of militarization

Over the past decade, a steady and well-funded campaign has convinced the general public that China is the greatest threat to the safety and security of the American people.

Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...

What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?