Katie Singer: Reproductive health in a digital era when you want to know your body and nature"-not an app Whatever happens in our society (i.e., women of childbearing age have menstrual cycles) now intersects with digitalization. 2 

Katie Singer: Allegiance to nature while living in a techno-sphere: A health care directive After a friend died a few months ago without a will and I learned that two thirds of U.S. Americans die without one1I updated mine and my health care directive for the first time in twenty years.

Katie Singer: Mining the sacred: questions for a sustainable relationship with the Earth In order to produce and preserve food, deliver electricity, manufacture and operate computers, access networks, data centers, "renewable" solar and wind systems, motorized vehicles (including tractors and electric vehicles) and so much more, our society depends on extracted ores and fossil fuels. 5 

John Hawkins: Book Review: The Bidens: Inside the First Family's Fifty-Year Rise to Power Review of The Bidens:Inside the First Family's Fifty-Year Rise to Power. Featuring the Lap Top from Hell containing emails and stuff tending to make the Bidens look baaaaad. .

John Hawkins: Sonnet: General Relativity Is Special Sonnet: General Relativity Is Special. The daily sonnet recalls its philosophical roots and wonders at this wonderful film about the nature of the real and the illusory and which is which. You or them.

John Hawkins: Sonnet: No, I Really Didn't Kill Anybody Sonnet: No, I Really Didn't Kill Anybody. The daily sonneyt considers a future for humans controlled by the AIs we build blindly.

John Hawkins: Book Review: Technocreep: The Surrender of Privacy and the Capitalization of Intimacy Book Review: Technocreep by Thomas P. Keenan. The author catalogues all the ways we are being surveilled today. Grim reading. But he does offer solutions and tips to recouping some privacy. . 2 

Katie Singer: Writing from the Internet: an article about nature and technology Letter #23 Writing from the Internet an article about nature and technology by Katie Singer One of these biodegrades. Photo credit: Mark Stebnicki and Kari Shea 2 

William T. Hathaway: "One Unbounded Ocean of Consciousness" By Dr. Tony Nader A new book that overcomes the conceptual gap separating matter from mind, science from spirituality.

Al Hirschfield: Maybe Shakespeare Really Didn't Write the Plays. Really... Like most people, from time to time I've come across the accusations that someone else really wrote Shakespeare's plays, and have dismissed them at face value, as nonsense. I've, of course, done so without any knowledge whatsoever of the whole question at hand (who was it that said "Ignorance is the natural state of the mind"?) 4 

John Hawkins: 3 Sonnets: Dying, Dying, Dead 3 Sonnets: Dying, Dying, Dead. The daily quest for a sonnet-a-day average continues. Today we consider why we say "we"? And death, the mind as killing fields and the little Pol Pot dicktaters ahead; who has a clue; and, The Moody Blues. 5