Vijayaraghavan Padmanabhan: Consciousness as the Basis of Disease and Disaster We can perceive consciousness as the common basis underlying the pandemic as well as apparently unconnected events. Consciousness can be considered to be the basis of everything in the universe, including the myriad living and non-living entities, which are thus inexplicably interconnected. Diseases and disasters apparently manifest at the global level, when there are shifts in the collective human nature and consciousness... 1 

John Hawkins: Sonnet: Don't Walk Away Rene Sonnet: Don't Walk Away Rene'. The daily sonnet has one last song to sing. This ain't it. This is just 364 of 365. I have so much anticipation I may erupt into a sun that glows forever.

John Hawkins: Sonnet: Time is Running Out, Our Egg is Cooked Sonnet: Time Is Running Out, Our Egg Is Cooked. We face so many critical species-endangering issues and lack visionaries who can move us together as one herd. We stand together, but like bewildered beasts, uncertain of our future and the direction we should go. God is Dead, so we can't go to that well. Guess it must be up to us. 1 

Tom Mahon: Whose vision will prevail post-plague, President Trump or Pope Francis? An appeal, from a long-lapsed Catholic to the Pope, to expand his new encyclical Fratelli Tutti, and use the Church's wealth and influence to become a leader in the fight against catastrophic climate change. 1 

William T. Hathaway: "Consciousness and the Quantum: The Next Paradigm" A review of a new book on the implications of quantum physics for us as individuals. 1 

Scott Harris: Facing the Reality of Extinction and Doom: Techno-Utopianism and the Fate of the Earth A Summary of, and commentary on last month's "Techno-Utopianism and the Fate of the Earth" conference in New York City. 2 

Richard Aberdeen: Do Species Evolve from Other Species? One of the most blindly accepted and rarely thought through very carefully claims of modern science is, that species "evolve" from other species. This concept is indoctrinated into the impressionable minds of modern students from elementary school forward. But, is this in fact really true? 38 

Dave Ewoldt: Global Warming: Mitigate, Adapt... or Reverse? Let's connect some dots and see if global warming mitigation and adaptation should retain our focus, do they merely continue the status quo of exploitation and imperialism, or should we actually attempt to reverse course by working with the natural systems principles from which life emerges? 24 

Tim McGettigan: Feynman's Cosmic Onion Albert Einstein believed that the universe was governed by a rational god who would never play dice with his precious creation. Yet, if scientists have learned anything over the past century, it is that the universe is anything but rational. Thus, if there is a god, he does play dice. Further, scientists who don't wish to crap out would be well advised to wise up to the increasingly bizarre rules of his game. 13 

Tim McGettigan: Evolution 2.0: Lamarck, Culture and Human Ingenuity observers have also noted that humans have been liberated from the strict constraints of biological, or Darwinian evolution. For example, in Wired for Culture , Pagel (2012) argues that humans have been able to subvert the biological evolutionary process due to their unique capacity for cognition and cultural adaptation. 6 

Tim McGettigan: Paradigms Unlimited: Thomas Kuhn and Evolutionary Truth Though Kuhn's revelations stirred a great deal of discomfort in the scientific community, nevertheless, his analysis exposed crucial insights about the knowledge accumulation process. 14 

Tim McGettigan: Time Surfers: Problem-Solving as the Path to a Better, Brighter, but Unpredictable Future Essentially, the future is a process. The fact that the earth has been revolving around the sun for eons is a fairly strong indicator that it will continue doing so in the future. One of the most unpredictable instigators of temporal change is the often improbable impact that human agents have upon the structure of unfolding events. 9