Until the AI boom, the renewable energy transition was perhaps humanity’s most talked about technological breakthrough, positioning clean, electrified tech as the world’s best bet to fend off the existential threat of climate change. But as global powers race to dig up the critical minerals needed to power that energy transition, a renewable revolution might…
Nobody is interested in sticking around New York City to watch communism destroy what is left of the once-great metropolis. Wealth taxes have been implemented, and billionaires have predictably left for tax-free states that aren’t importing 391,000 people from the Dominican Republic. Washington thought that capital gains taxes were the perfect ingredient to scare away…
AN incident aboard a Frontier Airlines flight turned into a scene straight out of an action film when a deranged passenger attempted to pry open an emergency exit door thousands of feet in the air, claiming he just wanted to “get off the plane,” before trying to force his way into the cockpit and choking…
The man who held people hostage at a Chase Bank in Bakersfield, California, was shot dead by the FBI after a 15-hour standoff. On Tuesday afternoon, a man with bombs strapped to his chest held people hostage at a Chase Bank. Nearby buildings were evacuated. “An unidentified male subject is currently barricaded with an unknown…
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” ~Hermann Hesse My dad was intubated, so he couldn’t say the words back to me. I told him I loved him anyway. Instead, he slowly pointed to himself and then to me. “You love me too?” I asked. His eyes…
Right on cue as transiting Uranus squares the UK Pluto, riots break out over the death of a white teenager stabbed by a young Sikh with a ‘religious’ knife, who initially claimed he has been racially attacked. The police handcuffed the dying man bleeding out on the road before sussing they had got it wrong….
image by AI; my own prompt — ‘me’ imagining worst-case scenarios Every day, something happens that gets me anxious or upset. Technology failures, news about outrageous events, abuses and other horrors, meanness and unfairness by people I know or observe. Small worrisome physical or mental health issues. Dismay and shame at my own behaviours. Dread…
Amidst the astro-excitement of the revitalising effect of the celestial transition into Air Fire signs as opposed to the recent downbeat Water Earth, what has been overlooked is the effect of Neptune, Uranus and Pluto sitting on, or in aspect to, the midpoints of the two others. At present Neptune is conjunct the Uranus/Pluto midpoint…
by Unbroken Self: In order to grasp the essence of Vedanta, it’s necessary to have an understanding of what we call Ishvara. Ishvara is the creative principle of the cosmos; both the intelligence that shapes the universe and its very substance. “Some religions say there is only one God. Vedanta says there is only God.” —…
by Elizabeth Davis: Yo-Yo Ma’s video opens with the following message: “Culture – the way we express ourselves and understand each other – can bind us together as one world…” The camera pans to show the cellist playing in front of a dramatic cityscape. But soon, we’re taken to very different scenes – from a ballet…
