Tag: Science
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Nature is a jazz band
“Climate change”, avers Rex Tillerson, ex-CEO of ExxonMobil and erstwhile US Secretary of State, “is an engineering problem, and it has engineering solutions.” This brief statement encapsulates how the metaphor of the machine underlies the way our mainstream culture views the natural world. It also hints at the grievous dangers involved in perceiving nature in […]
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Earth, say “cheese”!
Google Earth has just launched a time-lapse feature that lets users wind back the clock and see how the world has changed over several decades. This latest feature has been developed together with the NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), the U.S. Geological Survey, the European Commission and the ESA (European Space Agency) who provided […]
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