Mount Roraima and the other tabletop mountains in Canaima National Park are considered to be the oldest geological formations on Earth, dating back around two billion years to the Precambrian Era [read more: https://t.co/9maPvLdRqe]
@saditious @FeyeraBender @mjlwry Haha yeah no I agree I got you. I’d say the political-ideological spectrum lies elsewhere, perhaps as a tension between post-structuralist leftists and more of a metamodernist alt-right? Which way western man?
A separate question is who are the foundational radlib philosophers.
@saditious @FeyeraBender @mjlwry Deleuze for sure. So many labels could be applied and he is recruited in the service of disjointed political milieu.
One could also say Machiavelli deserves a fresh look ;)
53 years ago, November 6 1968, the Black Student Union and the Third World Liberation Front at San Francisco State University began the longest student strike in US history, spawning the departments of Black Studies and Ethnic Studies at SFSU, and Ethnic Studies and UC Berkeley
To complement new writing in our Lewontin Memorial collection, today's archive feature is from his longtime collaborator Dick Levins, who describes working with Cuban scientists in "Ecology Under Socialism: Meeting the People's Needs." (1981, p. 29-33). https://t.co/d6iPplh6R0
California is in need of a Blue New Deal to maximize the carbon sequestering potential of the ocean, support local ocean based jobs, and keep life here beautiful!
https://t.co/kq6M7MMoNf
The Cumbre Vieja volcano continues to wreak havoc at La Palma, where lava streams like these ones pour from the fissures. The eruption has continued for more than a month and is yet to show any sign of easing [read more: https://t.co/Z1wYhNdK8J] https://t.co/AyY2ic2qnC
Researchers propose “at least 142,000 years old for the beads.”
The Tritia mollusk shells “were found in a single layer of ashy silt, as were stone blades and scrapers, charcoal from ancient campfires, and fragments of wildebeest, gazelle, and zebra bone” https://t.co/gKHpqZoGdL
Plastics already spew twice as much climate pollution globally as airplanes.
By 2030, in the U.S. alone, plastics will eclipse coal as a source of greenhouse gases, new @PlasticsBeyond research shows.
And that's almost certainly a huge *underestimate.*
https://t.co/cSQMGiUB6J
@DanielDenvir@noname@NonameBooks From what I’ve seen, @NonameBooks inhabits a space that is somewhere between a library and a bookstore; how will they meet the financial challenges therein? What are markers of engagement and sustainability? Do they serve not only their community, but also seek to be a model?
15 uncoupled pendulums of increasing lengths dance and produce visual traveling waves, standing waves and beating [source, by Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations: https://t.co/TCg4lLtumf]