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Karlie Noon: Reaching for the stars

Indigenous science graduate Karlie Noon fought hard to get a double major in pure maths and physics. She talks about her journey and her hopes for the future. Tags: dripfeed_critical_ecologies

Five Book Places

“Brett Story’s film The Prison in Twelve Landscapes depicts the variety of ways in which incarceration and criminal punishment shape the American landscape, both urban and rural — without ever showing a penetentiary. It begins its New York…

Farmers and soil health – Sugar vs the Reef ?

Over the past month while I’ve been here in Mackay I’ve met many people who are in some way connected with agriculture – soil scientists, environmental scientists, official representatives of the sugarcane industry, local food producers,…

Obituary: Great Barrier Reef (25 Million BC-2016)

For most of its life, the reef was the world’s largest living structure, and the only one visible from space. It was 1,400 miles long, with 2,900 individual reefs and 1,050 islands. In total area, it…

The Secret Life of Trees: The Astonishing Science of What Trees Feel and How They Communicate – Brain Pickings

Trees dominate the world’s the oldest living organisms. Since the dawn of our species, they have been our silent companions, permeating our most enduring tales and never ceasing to inspire fantastical cosmogonies. Hermann Hesse called them…

The Planthunter – Think Like a Plant, Think Like a Woman

There are ways to fight climate change. One way is to think like a plant and another is to think like a woman. Although this might sound a little strange, changing our attitudes makes sense when…

Enough is Enough #NoDAPL |

In the northern USA something exceptional and exceptionally important is happening right now. People have been coming from near and far to stand with indigenous people of the Great Sioux Nation as they seek to protect…

EARTH LAB, June 22 – September 25, 2016

The EARTH LAB exhibition is a whole planet, a space where artists act as catalysts for innovation ideas in the modern society. This is a major co-curated multimedia project by Ars Electronica Center and the Polytechnic…

Accepting the agency of the non-human

At the heart of PSI 2016 was a slightly belated acknowledgement of the so-called New Materialism and its centrality to environmentalist alternatives. New Materialism reminds us that matter is never static. Tags: dripfeed_critical_ecologies