We are thrilled by this review of our book The Blind Spot. There is another way to talk about science, nature and our place in it that doesn’t reduce time to clocks, biology to machines and experience to computations. We desperately need to develop that new path.

The theory of change I aspire to.

Referring to people as "resources" has always disturbed me. There's an underlying philosophy there which enables violence. "...the essence of technology: a mindset in which the world is not encountered in its full being, but merely a set of resources standing ready to be used."

Trump energy chief says there are upsides to ecological collapse. “It’s total antiscientific nonsense in service of a fossil fuel industry-driven administrative agenda.” ⁦Prof Michael E. Mann⁩ heated.world/p/trump-energy…

Francois Venter: South Africa faces its worst health crisis in 20 years. Worse than COVID, and one that will overshadow diabetes as a major killer, while pouring petrol on a dwindling TB fire. But it is preventable if our government steps up urgently. groundup.org.za/article/south-…

Scientists have been publishing climate models since ~1970. A good way to evaluate their skill is to compare what they expected to happen in the years after the model was published to observed climate changes. It turns out most models were pretty spot-on:

This is a fascinating film examining how comedy in the midst of tragedy is a means of resistance. It's dark, and funny - the scene of a man going outside to take out the rubbish while a tank turret tracks him is surreal. youtube.com/watch?v=oVhpp5…

So #SuzukiSA are happy to trade on the #JimnyCulture goodwill which exists in the community as expressed in the #JimnyGathering, but completely unwilling to assist when real issues with the #Jimny arise.

Hey Checkers you sent me an offensive WhatsApp message this morning from someone I do not know who is pretending to know me, but it is fake. I have DM'd you to ask whom I can contact about this.

Hey City of Cape Town there's a pothole on James Road in Observatory - but your reporting system is down and the contact number is unable to assist