"Under capitalism, we have extremely high resource use and yet masses of people are deprived of even basic needs. With an ecosocialist approach, we can achieve social progress and ecological progress at the same time." Join us on Upstream here👇 open.spotify.com/episode/7n1POf…

Can quantum mechanics help us understand consciousness? Many scientists, rooted in a materialist worldview, argue that consciousness emerges from the interactions of inanimate molecules. In contrast, Stuart Hameroff presents a provocative theory according to which consciousness

I've made 7 free online courses to help you read Karl Marx: Reading Marx's Capital v1 (2019 & 2007 eds) Reading Marx's Capital v2 Reading Marx's Grundrisse (2023 & 2020 eds) Marx, Capital, & the Madness of Economic Reason The ABC of Contemporary Capital davidharvey.org/reading-capital

Dog's heartwarming reaction to being rescued..🐕🐾🥺🙏❤️

"This is the paradox of capitalism..." open.spotify.com/episode/7n1POf…

New Study Shows as Little as 10 Minutes a Day of Walking Is Beneficial 1️⃣ 40,953 women and 30,820 men were included in the study. 2️⃣ An additional 10-min or 30-min daily brisk walk was associated with 0.9 and 1.4 years longer life expectancy, respectively, in inactive women;

Why, nearly 100 years after quantum mechanics was invented, do we still struggle to accept what it seems to say about reality? My piece for Nautilus Magazine on the history of that fraught and remarkable period. nautil.us/when-reality-c…

The death of the Amazon - not even worth reporting on main stream media #BBC #CNN #ITV SKY A staggering 7.4 million acres of Brazil’s Amazon burned in the first half of 2024, a 122% increase from the previous year And in 2023, an astonishing 26.4 million acres burned #Climate

BREAKING: Following Donald Trump’s debacle at Arlington National Cemetery, Vote Vets released this devastating ad calling out Donald Trump for his BS. Retweet to make sure all Americans see this.

ICYMI. New post on Substack: Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle - by Jim Baggott (substack.com)

Lady Gaga's POWERFUL speech against Trump, was deleted from Twitter by Elon Musk. You know what to do ‼️ Retweet it widely 🚨

Elon Musk has been retweeting prominent race scientist adherents on his platform X, spreading misinformation about racial minorities’ intelligence and physiology to his audience of 176.3 million followers. motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

Attorney General Merrick Garland was one of Biden's weakest cabinet picks, a man who larged failed the challenge of the times. To avoid this fate again, Elie Mystal argues, progressives should start lobbying for their desired AG choices now! bit.ly/3T532En

🇺🇸Unions create freedom. 👷‍♀️Workers are profit creators. 👵 Pensions are earned. #LaborDay2024

BREAKING: Mike Pence has just announced that he cannot in good conscience vote for Donald Trump. Retweet to make sure every American sees this clip.

"[R]eally good teachers are not thought of highly by the academic society. This business of 'publish or perish' has been a catastrophe. People write things which should never have been written and which should never be printed. Nobody's interested." — Hannah Arendt

I can’t say how exciting this book is. How did I miss it for so long?

Out now: a new LRB audiobook, 𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘳: 𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘻𝘢 𝘵𝘰 𝘚𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘳𝘦 by Jonathan Rée, exploring the lives of some of the most influential thinkers of the past four hundred years. Listen to the first chapter on the pod: lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-v…

"I'm not so orderly as to produce syllabi for my students. I'm busy enough trying to teach them." — Hannah Arendt

“Reality is constructed by the brain, and no two brains are exactly alike.” Reality includes neurons, synapses and the brain itself. These also are constructs. What constructs the reality that we perceive as neurons, synapses and the brain itself? scientificamerican.com/article/the-ne…