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The Enlivenment Manifesto: Politics and Poetics in the Anthropocene
Key Concepts The current ideology of dead matter, mechanical causality, and the exclusion of experience from descriptions of reality in ecology and economy are responsible for our failure to protect aliveness in our world. The challenge of the ‘Anthropocene’ and the end of dualistic enlightenment-style thinking is to install a new ‘bios’ into our concept […]
A black-tailed deer wades through one of the lush wildflower meadows at Mount Ranier. photography | National Park Service, Steve Redman
The Biology of Wonder | Finding the Human in Nature
Chapter One: Towards a 'Poetic Ecology'
Of course, the animals need humans. They need us like old parents, against whom we have revolted for a while and who one day, weakened, deprived of their former power, request to be protected by us. ~ Brigitte Kronauer1 Subjective Feeling as the Moving Force in All Life For 150 years, biology, the ‘science of […]
Cell Slider is the first citizen scientist project whose goal is to speed up cancer research by enlisting citizen scientists to analyze real tumor samples, such as that above. Computers can pick up obvious trends but only the human eye can spot subtleties that have led to important serendipitous discoveries. By giving just a few minutes of your time and a few clicks of your mouse, you can help accelerate the research. www.scistarter.com
The Rise of Citizen Science
Imagine yourself discovering another Earth. Or identifying an unknown underwater species. Helping the blind to see. Finding a cure for cancer. Proving the existence of extraterrestrial intelligent life. Such visions motivate hundreds of thousands of ordinary people—of all ages, from around the world and all walks of life—to participate in the phenomenon known as citizen […]
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The Frontier of Science and Education
Excerpts from The Heart of Higher Education: A Call to Renewal
Since Galileo, science has had a bias towards simplification for the very sensible and practical reason that it was all it could handle. Nothing is wrong with this as long as the limitation of the method is not projected onto reality, limiting it.
Learning to See Life: Developing the Goethean Approach to Science
I have often thought that if a teacher wanted to have one succinct motto to hang above his or her bed, she’d have a hard time finding a better one than: ‘characterize, don’t define.’ Characterization is based on careful observation. Through our own observations and those of others we can form within ourselves and in […]
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