Civilization

Reinventing Capitalism: Strange Currencies in the Marketplace

Russell C. Smith | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Economy, Small Business News and Trends, Mega-Wealthy, Online Shopping, Local Currencies, Consumer Spending, Consumer Tracking, Small Business America, Civilization, Small Business News

It's safe to say there's been no other time in the history of the world when so much information on peoples' purchasing habits has been gathered, stored, catalogued, and most importantly... used.

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Mayan Civilization's Demise Linked to Bizarre Beliefs

Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Video, Ancient Mayan, Ancient Religion, Decline, Ghosts, Ancient Spirituality, Maya, Collapse, Archaeology, Haunted Places, Civilization, Science News

By: Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor Published: 03/22/2012 10:05 AM EDT on LiveScience A dread of malevolent spirits haunting forsaken areas...

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Satellite Spies Thousands of Ancient Human Settlements

Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Fertile Crescent, Mesopotamia, Ancient Settlement, Near East, Humans, Archaeology, Satellite, Civilization, Video, Science News

By: Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 03/19/2012 03:15 PM EDT on LiveScience Ancient humans have changed the landscape around thei...

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2012-2020: Where Mythologies Clash

Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D. | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Industrial Revolution, Third Industrial Revolution, Cultural Evolution, Geopolitics, Sustainability, Community, Communications, Future, Civil Society, Civilization, Consciousness, Healthy Living News

The decade ahead will be a testing time as it marks the peak clash between two mythologies -- or rather, two defining eras.

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Endgame of an Era

Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D. | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Energy, Consciousness, Globalization, Society, Systemic Risk, Planetary Society, Civilization, Social Mind, Mindful Living News

The modern world has witnessed a different type of consciousness emerging over the past 150 years, a post-Industrial Revolution cognitive mind.

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WATCH: Why The West Is Losing Out To The Rest

Posted 01.06.2012

Read More: Video, The West and Rest, Niall Ferguson, The Great Divergence, Economy, Civilization: The West and the Rest, Western Society, TED Talks, The Six Killer Apps, Civilization, Books News

Historian Niall Ferguson discussed "the six killer apps" of prosperity in his recent TED talk. These "apps" refer to certain ideas--competition, sc...

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Awakening From The Illusion Of Our Separateness

David Loy | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Psychology, Green Living, Zen, Ecology, Buddhism, Civilization, Green Faith, Religion and Ecology, Separateness Illusion, Nondualism, Zen Buddhism, Religion News

In contemporary terms, our sense of being separate from others is a psychosocial construct, composed of habitual ways of thinking, feeling and acting.

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Our Social Crises -- From Breakdown to Breakthrough

Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D. | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Social Change, Consciousness, Tipping Point, Revolution, Crises, Future, Society, Civil Society, Civilization, World News

Leading sociologists have shown that societies are far more likely to break down when they're overloaded by converging stresses; for example, rapid population growth, resources depletion, and economic decline.

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Marco Brambilla's Epic 3D Video Art

The Huffington Post | Travis Korte | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Counterstrike, Technological Singularity, Kanye West, Power, Interview, Civilization, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Sistine Chapel, Video, Video Art, Demolition Man, Marco Brambilla, Evolution, The Dark Lining, Hell, Heaven, Arts News

After watching Marco Brambilla's 1992 film Demolition Man, audiences would have felt a sense of finality. The credits rolled, the lights went up and t...

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Hired DistrActivists

Paula Gordon | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Harry Frankfurt, David Koch, Charles Koch, Nancy Pelosi, John Birch, T.S.Elliot, Distractivists, Republicans, Grover Norquist, Kleptocrats, Oligarchs, Distraction, Sarah Palin, Civilization, Media News

All the media wants to hear about is a soon-to-be former Congressman whose self-absorption and bad judgement are remarkable even by current congressional standards. I don't understand professional journalists, with all the resources at their command, being so easily suckered.

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Conquerors, Debt, Joblessness, and "The Crisis of the Third Century"

Lydia Fisher | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Italy, Europe, Debt, Jobs, Romans, Joblessness, China, Japan, Civilization, Aig, Worldwide Debt, Stagnation, Hedge Funds, US Debt, Financial Crisis, Systemic Risk, Portugal, Too Big to Fail, Spain, Greece, Currency Collapse, Lydia Fisher, Business News

If the financial crisis tells us anything, it's this. We moved away from person-to-person reciprocity and community orientation. We deconstructed boundaries for expedient profit.

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The Pandemic Disease of the 21st Century Is on the Rise

Bernard Starr | Posted 08.01.2011

Read More: Cell Phones, Bill Maher, Twitter, Financial Services, Paranoia, Disease, Ethics, Pandemic, Vaccine, Cure, Facebook, Remedies, Illness, Civility, Civilization, Comedy News

Police recently ejected a woman from an Amtrak quiet car after 16 hours of non-stop talking on her cell phone -- a new record for a PACS symptom flare-up.

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Post-Apocalyptic Anti-Monuments

Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Detritus, Art, Alchemy, Apocalypse, Sculpture, Monument, Beautiful Decay, Gold, Artists, Huma Bhabha, Studio Visit, Saatchi Gallery, Civilization, Arts News

(Via Beautiful Decay) Huma Bhabha is not unlike a medieval alchemist, transmuting discarded materials into works of art—morphing civilization’s d...

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Has India Downloaded the 'Killer Apps'?

Madhavi Bhasin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Consumer-Society, India, Civilization, Killer Apps, Naill-Ferguson, World News

India has opted for a path which may be comparable in some measure, but is not identical, to the growth trajectory of Western Civilization.

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WATCH: Justice's New Single Soundtracks Adidas Ad With Katy Perry

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Justice, Romain Gavras, Justice New Song, Civilization, Because, Justice New Single, Ed Banger, Katy Perry, Video, Entertainment News

French electro duo Justice have announced their return. They will be releasing "Civilization," the first single from their sophomore album, April 4 on...

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Water: Soul of the Earth, Mirror of Our Collective Souls

Robert David Steele | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Humanity, Earth, Heaven, Consciousness, Spirit, Faith, Soul, Water, Catastrophe, Civilization, Corruption, Books News

Last week I examined how we might create Infinite Wealth for All, but left for this week the most vital element of life on earth, Water. It is the so...

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What Do Cows' Milk And Thicker Skulls Have In Common?

Gregory Cochran | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Genetic Testing, Human Evolution, Genetically Engineered Foods, Science, Darwinism, 10000 Year Explosion, Gregory Cochran, Civilization, Creationism, Darwin, Charles Darwin, Genetically Modified Food, Genetics, Evolution, Henry Harpending, Genetic Engineering, Books News

Note that old-style humans had much thicker skulls than we do today. Field researchers have actually mistaken fragments of a homo erectus skull for part of a turtle shell.

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What's Right with America? Let Me List the Books

Robert David Steele | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Leadership, Global Game, Whole System, Reflective Practice, Stabilization, Decision-Support, Self-Determination, Web of Knowledge, Secession, Community, Collective Intelligence, Innovtion, Future, World Brain, Integrity, Peace, World Mind, Civilization, Culture, Voices, History, Global Brain, Liberty, Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Natural Capitalism, Values, Bio-Economics, Africa, Analysis, Freedom, Epoch B, Deliberative Dialog, Clarity, Systemic Inquiry, Technology, Common Wealth, Reconciliation, Strategy, Goodness, Bio-Mimicry, Social Capitalism, Reconstruction, Human Scale, Ecological Economics, Compassion, Conscious Evolution, Evolutionary Activism, Web 2.0, Atlases, Philosophy Priorities, Information, Health, Web 4.0, Integral Consciousness, Cosmos, Diversity, China, Truth, Universe, Politics News

I became the #1 Amazon reviewer for non-fiction [or 32/216 overall including movies, software, and fiction) quite by accident, loading 300 reviews fr...

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Hello, America? This is Your Wakeup Call

Randall Amster | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Warwire, Apocalypse, Economic Crisis, War, Environment, Oil, Gulf Oil Spill, Consumption, Methane, Civilization, Green News

This is a bona fide moment of truth for Americans. We either wake up and smell the methane, or continue sleepwalking down a path to seemingly inevitable self-destruction.

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Paul Gauguin, In Search of the Primitive: Jacques Jouet's Savage

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Primitivism, Post-Impressionism, Modernism, Postmodern Fiction, Manet, Experimental Fiction, Imperialism, Colonization, Dalkey Archive Press, Jacques Jouet, Civilization, Paul Gauguin, Books News

Savage is highly successful, morally anchored experimental fiction. Jouet provokes fundamental rethinking of the permanent questions about the West's relation to its "savage" other.

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DK Matai | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chaos, Chaos Theory, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico, Butterfly Effect, Niger Delta, Brazil, Bp, Quantum Physics, Habits, Living News, Words, Rome, Green Living, Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi, Destiny, Possible Worlds, Living, Philosophers, Cicero, Values, Actions, World, World News, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Macondo, Thermohaline Circulation, International Maritime Organization, Microcosm, Ireland, Spain, Canada, Environmental Protection Agency, Norway, Germany, Solar System, Climate, Stock Market, Weather, Black Swan, New York, Nacr, Edge of Chaos, South Korea, Macrocosm, Oceans, Atomic Age, Great Ocean Conveyor, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, United Nations, Computer Simulation, Methane, Deterministic Chaos, Eu, Climate Change, Sweden, New York Academy of Sciences, European Commission, Mexico, Edward Lorenz, Environment, Europe, Father of Chaos Theory, Civilization, Non-Linear Systems, Dynamical Systems, 21st Century, Hermetic Axiom, Hermes, Poll, Gulf Oil Spill, Green, Green Energy, Energy, Natural Gas, India, g20, China, G20 Summit, Oil Drilling, Big Oil, Peak Oil, Oil, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Green News

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On the Moral Depravity of Capitalism in 21 Tweets

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Market, Guilt, Empathy, Economics, Money, Democracy, United States, Inhumanity, Political Economy, Power, Capitalism, America, Compassion, Civilization, Competition, Politics, Liberty, Zero-Sum, Wealth, West, Morality, Health Care, Social Democracy, Business News

I've thought a lot about it & have concluded that market capitalism is actually conducive to evil. It's not just a talking point.

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Is Marriage a Barbarian-Adoption Program?

Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.17.2011

Married men are less generous with their friends after marrying. How, does this qualify as acting "more civilized," as the Marriage Mafia claim?

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Jon Stewart Author Interview: Spencer Wells On The Costs Of Civilization (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, Adaptation, Bp, Spencer Wells, Jon Stewart, Pandora's Seed, Authors, Civilization, Books, Obesity, Hunter Gatherers, Oil Spill, Author Interview, Books News

Geneticist Spencer Wells spoke to Jon Stewart last night about his new book, "Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization." He explained that,...

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First, Do No Harm

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, British Petroleum, Capitalism, Gulf Oil Spill, American Empire, Nuclear Power, Civilization, Green News

What if that phrase, which is the byword of many professions, became a sort of operating principle with which to proceed, individually and collectively, into the future?

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