Rare Earth Minerals. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Peggy Greb Powering the world using sustainable energy will require huge numbers of wind turbines, solar panels, and storage batteries. These will need many new sources of rare earth materials. Powering the entire world using sustainable energy will require huge numbers of wind turbines, solar panels, and storage …
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The New York Stock Exchange trading floor in 2009. It has become even more obvious that the primary objective of finance is not to benefit people and firms through loans to help cash-flow and capital investment, but to extract value by means of myriads of new financial instruments. By George KasabovContributing Writer Since 1950, the …
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Public markets were first established less than 3,000 years ago for people to buy and sell using the new invention, money. Market in Kolkata, India. Photo by Bernard Gagnon. We all think we know about money. But do we understand the functions of money, what money actually is, and what it represents? By George KasabovContributing Writer …
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Featured Book Healthy Pleasures Robert Ornstein and David SobelPaperback edition 1990 Imagine a medical treatment that can help lower your blood pressure, decrease your risk for heart disease and cancer, boost your immune function and block pain. Itโs safe, inexpensive and readily available. The main side effects include feeling good, an increased sense of well-being …
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Featured Book The Matter with Things Iain McGilchrist Richard Gault reviews The Matter with Things, published by Perspectiva Press in 2021. It is Iain McGilchristโs magnum opus, the product of ten yearsโ work and the culmination of his varied careers as a neuroscientist, literary scholar, philosopher and psychiatrist. His core argument is that we need to move …
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Featured Book Thinking Big How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind Robin Dunbar, Clive Gamble & John GowlettHardcover edition 2014 Today we all exemplify, and our contemporary culture continues to be driven by, the same social brain โ including the community sizes and levels of intentionality โ that appeared with the earliest …
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Featured Book Moral Tribes Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them Joshua D. GreenePaperback edition 2014 We live in an age of historically declining violence and expanding kindness. But it doesnโt feel like that to most of us. Unprecedented global threats and conflicts demand advances in our ability to coexist peacefully. Joshua D. …
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Communities, schools and teachers all affect studentsโ educational experiences. In the best case, each of these entities and individuals would work together to support all students to reach their full potential. By Kathleen Mazor, EdD, MSContributing Writer Public schools serve as essential pillars within communities, fostering social cohesion, knowledge dissemination, and opportunity for all children …
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CREATING THE WORLD WE WANT Discussion Guide: Empathy, Connection, and Global Health and Wealth in the Wake of Covid DOWNLOAD FREE GUIDE There is a moment at the start of every major crisis when we think: โThis is going to change everything.โ COVID-19 was no exception. But as the crisis born of this global pandemic evolved, …
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Every year we manufacture an amount of plastic about equal to the weight of all the people on Earth. Plastic is designed to last for centuries, but most of it is used only once and thrown away. Only 5% of plastic is recycled in the US, by far the worldโs foremost plastic-using nation. Living with …
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UC Berkeley materials science and engineering graduate student, preparing a sample film of a new biodegradable plastic. (Credit: Adam Lau/UC Berkeley). Plastic is a miraculous material, but the plastic industry has created a global crisis. Reduce, reuse and recycle has been the approach to plastic waste, but this has failed. A new future for plastic …
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In recent years India has defied calls to abandon its aggressive plans to burn more coal. But now economics and a crisis in health have set the nation on a new course. When the Agua Cliente solar plant west of Phoenix, Arizona was commissioned in 2014 it was the largest in world. But the new …
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