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We Are Living Through a Paradigm Shift in Our Understanding of Human Evolution

An interview with Professor Chris Stringer, one of the leading experts on human evolution. By Jan Ritch-Frel There’s a paradigm shift underway in our understanding of the past 4 million years of human evolution: ours is a story that includes…

Royalties for the Environment: Musicians give Earth Songwriting Credit

Brian Eno has a charity organization called Earth/Percent. It encourages musicians to donate a portion of their earnings to environmental protection. They do this by making the earth a co-writer of their songs. The resulting income is then donated directly…

Democracy or Apartheid: You Can’t Have Both

For two consecutive nights this week, during the holy month of Ramadan, the Israeli military stormed Al-Aqsa mosque. They entered the mosque before prayer was over, firing rubber bullets, stun grenades, and tear gas at Palestinian worshippers. These events left…

The Fear of AI Is Overblown—and Here’s Why

The unprecedented popularity of ChatGPT has turbocharged the AI hype machine. We are being bombarded daily by news articles announcing humankind’s greatest invention—Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is “qualitatively different,” “transformational,” “revolutionary,” “will change everything,”—they say. OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT,…

We send volunteers to Ukraine

World BEYOND War’s Zaporizhzhya Protection Project will send a team of four volunteers to Ukraine on April 7, invited by people in close proximity to the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant on the front lines of the war. These four are…

A Pebble that Floats

a book launch review by Agnes Prieto All weddings are full of smiles, looking for the fulfillment of dreams. Expectations beckon. Too swiftly, life crashes; there is nothing to look at, only a yawning emptiness that nothing reckons with. Weddings…

Face 2 Face with Kathy Kelly

On this show, we speak with Kathy Kelly about the situation of young women in Afghanistan. Since 2021, she and an ad hoc circle of internationals have assisted young Afghans to resettle in safer havens. She co-coordinates the BanKillerDrones.org campaign,…

Bridge of Peace and Prosperity Proposed From the Arab World to Syria

Syria is on the brink of recovery as Saudi Arabia plans to invite Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to the Arab League summit in Riyadh on May 19. By Steven Sahiounie Syria is on the brink of recovery as Saudi Arabia…

Not Everyone in Germany Is Popping Corks as the Country Remilitarizes

News came at the end of March, courtesy of German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, that Germany had completed a delivery of 18 Leopard 2 A6 main battle tanks to Ukraine. Still more, as Reuters reported on April 2, the German…

Hugo Novotny presented his work “Spiritual Paths of Asia”.

It was held at the “Carcarañá” Study and Reflection Park Study Centre, located in Lucio V. López, 35 km from Rosario. This exhibition inaugurates the 2023 period of presentations. The cycle is called “The Good Knowledge” and opens the hall…

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