Sandlewood as the crop for arid areas
We all know sandlewood, we burn it in incense, put it in our soaps and cosmetics, and even use it for art. Little did we know that it is the perfect tree for the arid Australian climate. Combine Sandlewood with aloe vera, olives, some grape vines and air-drop irrigation and we could have sustainable produce [...]
The game of life A clash of metal against my horns The dry hand that pulled me back My brother’s feet crush mine Their bodies’ heat becomes my hell Before I take my last breath The gate screeches and the field expands My heart leaps with the taste of freedom But my executioner is close [...]
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We need a few ingredients, a purpose, randomness, trial and error, and genetic progression. We seem to solve problems by imagining scenarios and then possible solutions, trying each solution on the imagined stage and then discarding those that don’t work. Each time we imagine a new scenario and a new stage (situation) we [...]
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There is one idea that can pull together developments so seemingly incompatible as permaculture and digital currencies like Bitcoin into one new universal social and economic system. That idea is Fluidity. Many new developments are popping up all over the globe and our CEO’s and policy makers are lagging so far behind they have [...]
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Schama’s BBC doco on Caravaggio. My favourite Renaissance artist purely because every time you see his work you are moved. It is not pretty, it is not paying homage to a Pope or King. It is human… so very human.
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I love this because David was a revolutionary and a propagandist and… and. My sister asked me while reading Anna Karenina do you know the “The death of Marat” and because of this I did. It is mentioned in Anna Karenina because it had such political power. Watch and learn.
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A doco from the BBC looking at the writing of Wordsworth, Blake and Coleridge and their times. Upheaval, revolution and a new (old) way of looking at the world. And of course philosophers Diderot and Rousseau. Beauty in nature not the machine, beauty in people not politics, beauty in leisure not labour. Liberty [...]
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A fluid society relies upon a few changes to the way societies and economies now function. It requires people to use money as a form of value-vote rather than just means to garner resources for survival and as a tool to create more wealth. This is called monetary democracy, whereby you support people and their [...]
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The belief or faith in a God or Gods, a higher power or a guiding strength is not the cause of religious violence, it is instead the belief in the righteousness of one’s doctrine over another that forces people to attack those of differing beliefs. I differ from Sam Harris in his book ‘The End [...]
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England is having blizzards in spring. The worst in 50 years. London is covered in snow again, they hadn’t had snow for decades before 2000. The USA has a winter that won’t end. New York has had two massive hurricanes in 4 years. Australia is getting tornadoes!! Unheard of. Australia has had floods and bushfires [...]
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