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Impacts and Insurance: Climate Change Risk Transfer
Is a creeping catastrophe insurable? Eberhard Faust, climate risk researcher at Munich Re, one of the world’s largest reinsurance companies, and disaster historian Scott Knowles talk about the instruments and scale-problems involved in calculating and transferring the costs of climate-change-related… Continue reading
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Whiteness is Dead | The Wild Hunt
Highly recommend a read through of this… Whiteness is dead. James Baldwin proclaimed it back in 1972, prophesying ominously that there would be “bloody holding actions all over the world, for years to come.” The holding actions have gotten bloodier… Continue reading
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Infrared Photography Captures the Neon World of Colorblind Islanders – Creators
On a small island in the Pacific called Pingelap, a high percentage of the population sees the world in only black and white. A startling number of island’s inhabitants suffer from achromatopsia, or total color-blindness with an increased sensitivity to… Continue reading
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Mindfulness colouring sheets
Great series of coloring pictures for mindful detachment. Take a look and choose your favorite. Source: Mindfulness colouring sheets Continue reading
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The solitude of the inner citadel: the epoché of suffering | Preludes and Refrains
…the situation of philosophy today is one in which we can no longer pretend that we are innocent of reproducing the same violence that the philosopher has suffered at the hands of the sophist and the misologist. Since Kant, philosophy’s… Continue reading
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AnarchoCynic as Queer or recognizing the gravity well of domination
We are forsaken to our existential condition. We can simply make-do with what is already underway, or we can accept responsibility for having the power to explore in a fashion otherwise than tradition teaches. Anarchocynicism only works so long as… Continue reading
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Iceberg Detaches from the Larsen C Shelf
The Antarctic Peninsula is one of the fastest-warming regions on Earth, with average temperatures that have risen about 3°C (5°F) over the last half century. The increasing size and poleward shift of the Larsen calving events over the last 20-plus… Continue reading
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