Tag: Environment
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Kornak: Machine World — Finding Humanity at the End of the World
Discover *Kornak: Machine World*, an epic science fiction novel exploring survival, nature, and redemption. Follow Kael Ash, a broken soldier stranded on the alien world of Danu, where brutal ecosystems heal his shattered spirit. Learn how wilderness, interconnectedness, and hope become humanity’s greatest weapons against the machine civilization known as the Kornak.
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Spirit Tree: A Story of Isolation, Resilience, and the Hidden Strength Within
Discover the deeper meaning behind *Spirit Tree*, a poetic science fiction novella exploring disability, neurodiversity, resilience, and belonging through the journey of a solitary tree. Learn how isolation, adaptation, and consciousness become powerful allegories for human difference, revealing that our greatest struggles can become our greatest gifts.
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Fractured Worlds: What Science Fiction Can Teach Us About Our Deepest Divisions
Discover the philosophy behind Fractured World, where the conflict between the Holdfasts and the Weave mirrors today’s debates over technology, ecology, and Indigenous knowledge. Explore Arthur Koestler’s holon, Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory, systems thinking, and practical ways to bridge ideological divides. Learn why humanity’s greatest challenges may require integrating complementary perspectives rather than choosing between…
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Wave Riders of the Galaxy
Listen to the audioblog (1451 words) The Voyager The Starlight Voyager hummed as it cut through the endless black of space. Its sleek hull shimmered under the light of distant stars, its powerful engines off, a silver solar sail pulling them towards their destination. Inside, the crew stood at the observation window, their faces illuminated…
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Mermaid Planet: Lirael’s Last Song
Humanity’s quest for a new home leads them to Tethys, an ocean world inhabited by mystical mermaids whose songs hold the secrets of harmony with nature
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Reflections on Blogging for Science and Surfing
Blogging had made me a better writer, created new opportunities and expanded my creative directions. Above all, it’s fun and I enjoy it.
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Our Environmental Past Can’t Become Our Future…
Forty-eight years ago millions of people in 192 countries across the globe created Earth Day on April 22, 1970. The first celebration took place in 2,000 colleges and universities, 10,000 primary and secondary schools, and hundreds of communities across the US involving over 20 million Americans. That day changed the world. Lately, it seems like we are forgetting what…
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Crush Depth: Adventures with Scientific Submersibles
“What’s your depth?” echoed down from the surface radio, unanswered for the third time in a row and sounding increasingly desperate. It was 2002 and I was riding inside the scientific submersible Delta, heading towards the seafloor off Anacapa island in an area known simply as the “footprint,” a deep-water fish, coral and sponge hot spot…
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Chasing the Wild Abalone: Confessions of a Field Biologist
To be honest, I love abalone and have always been fascinated by this most unusual of snails. In college I truly began to “chase the abalone” which led me to become a field biologist. So these are my confessions; some of my adventures while chasing abalone. Things I normally wouldn’t admit to but looking back…
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Are Animals Conscious and Does it Matter?
Many people hope that some day we may meet an intelligent being from another world. Hollywood tells us this stranger will come flying down in a spaceship, and will look a bit like us. Most importantly, he’ll have a mind like ours and we’ll figure out how to communicate in a few hours. But maybe…
