Ars Technica published a short article on Corvid memory linking a recent research article published in Nature. The Ars Technica post was titled: Corvids seem to handle temporary memories the way we do. Which goes toward an early post about humans not fully understanding the perception capabilities (and connected mental / physical activities) of different…
An article in Exploresweb referenced a DNA study of two Picts’ and concluded that contrary to popular opinions, the Picts were most likely Iron Age residents in northern England, not immigrants from continental Europe. Picts history (Wikipedia) is fascinating as is most prehistorical research that relies on either physical artifacts, oral history or much later…
A recent book, In the Eye of the Wild by Nastassja Martin, her experience with a bear in the far north as an anthropologist and amazingly courageous and compassionate human being is worth all the time it takes to read (maybe even 2x). Her compassionate and shamanistic experiences with the wild and humans were well…
Our most simple, accidental actions can have disastrous results. Human actions have consequences. Something similar to the ‘butterfly effect‘. A recent post shared France’s efforts (and French people) to reduce and eventually stop plastic and other non-organic waste. The Pacific Ocean garbage patch (Wikipedia, CNN, National Geographic) has been well covered in mainstream press. On…
When was the last time in a corporate strategy review meeting, or a government agency 30 year plan, when somebody said: “Remember, those either are or will be REAL humans behind those spreadsheet numbers. Not abstractions.” Climate changes impact life – hard to disagree. Reports and projections both fanciful and scientific are thrown around, disputed,…
I found a thread of commonality running from Heraclitus, Seneca, the Rolling Stones, and Cheryl Crow. This message is not exclusive to stoics, but maybe they were the ones who could walk the talk. “If you don’t regard what you have as enough, you will never be happy even if you rule the entire world”….
