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Plastic Aplenty! (Or, Why Recycle?)
By Jock Gilchrist Almost every piece of plastic that has ever been created is still in existence today. That’s because it takes about 1000 years for a plastic bag or water bottle to decompose...
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Biomimicry: What Termites Can Teach Us About Air Conditioning
By Jock Gilchrist We’ve designed computers that bring the sum of human achievement to our fingertips, but we can’t think of another way to dispose of these brilliant machines than tossing them in a...
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University Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaigns Take Off Across Nation
By Jock Gilchrist I was anxiously searching for the bathroom in the unfamiliar church when I accidentally ran into Bill McKibben. I opened the nondescript door to a vestibule, and BAM, there was one...
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Life Lessons from an Organic Farm
By Jock Gilchrist This January I spent three weeks working on an organic farm in southern California, in the mountains just outside the Mojave Desert. The farm offered an experience that was...
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Four Delicious Superfoods to Boost Your Health
By Jock Gilchrist For me, summer was officially over the night it got down to 45 degrees. Leaves are turning red, hoodies are out in full force, and there’s a growing chance you or someone you know is...
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Meditation: The Neuroscience of Wellbeing
By Jock Gilchrist Meditation has been a central component of religious traditions for millennia. Various methods exist, but it generally consists of quieting the mind to achieve a state of relaxation...
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Humans, Earth, and the Universe: The Unlikely Numbers that Lead to Life
By Jock Gilchrist A system is a complex mesh of interacting parts, each of which depends on others for their collective relationship to the whole to be maintained. Take the human body, one large...
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