Without my wonderfully brilliant students at Royal Roads University and CBC radio, I would not be nearly as informed. One of my students ‘tweeted’ this recently, a dramatic picture of climate change impacts.
A leading US biologist, Randy Schekman, who will receive his Nobel Prize in Stockholm on Tuesday, has just announced his lab will no longer submit journal articles to top tier journals. There is now so much emphasis in the academy on publishing 'impact factor', how many of us start the day by checking our 'factor'?
How do we develop systems of governance, education and health that connect, not disconnect us from what is important to our humanity, that bridge the divided selves we have become as a result of the solitudes, silos and stovepipes of our current institutions. The most critical solitude to blow away is the artificial separation between reason and emotion. This video, which talks about a new revolution in consciousness, discusses the new humanism based on three principles: 1.