lution; and it can solve these with a fraction of the materials now inefficiently used.
Moreover, energy, ever more available, directed by cumulative information stored in computers, is capable of synthesizing raw materials, of machining and packaging commodities, and of supplying the physical needs of [THE] total global population.
Fuller was a research professor at Southern Illinois University (Carbondale) from 1959 to 1968. In 1968 he was named university professor, in 1972 distinguished university professor, and in 1975 university professor emeritus. Queen Elizabeth II awarded Fuller the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture. He also received the 1968 Gold Medal Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
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es, social calm and liberal democracy, we need to upgrade our meaning making to match the complexity of the world we are creating.
Metamodernity is an alternative to both modernity and postmodernism, a cultural code that presents itself as an opportunity if we work deliberately towards it. It contains both indigenous, premodern, modern, and postmodern cultural elements and thus provides social norms and a moral fabric for intimacy, spirituality, religion, science, and self-exploration, all at the same time.
Metamodernity provides us with a framework for understanding ourselves and our societies in a much more complex way. It is a way of strengthening local, national, continental, and global cultural heritage among all and thus has the potential to dismantle the fear of losing one’s culture as the economy as well as the internet and exponential technologies are disrupting our current modes of societal organisation and governance.
Metamodernity will thus allow us to be meaning making at a deeper emotional level and a higher intellectual level compared to today; [IT] will allow us more complex understanding, which may match the com- plexity of the problems we need to solve. Appropriate meaning making is the best prevention against the frustrations that generally lead to authoritarian ideologies and societal instability.
Using metamodernity as the filter through which we see the world and as a template, we can create, among other things, new and appropriate education, pol- itics and institutions for our societies of the 21st century. A VISION such as this may even give hope.
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allotments and gardens can help arrest decline – study - Research also identifies pollinators’ favourite flowers, including brambles, buttercups, dandelions, lavender and borage
Allotments, weedy corners and fancy gardens are all urban havens for bees and other pollinators, a study has found. The widespread decline of bees resulting from the loss of wild areas and pesticide use has caused great concern in recent years, but towns and cities have been suggested as potential sanctuaries.
The first research to examine all types of land use in cities has identified pollinators’ favourite places and flowers, many of which are often considered weeds. A team of more than 50 people spent two years examining pollinators and plants in Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds and Reading. The results enabled them to work out the best ways to support a rich mix of pollinator species that will be resilient to climate change and other challenges. The best strategy is increasing the number of allotments, the report says. Planting preferred flowers in gardens also helps, as does mowing grass in public parks less frequently, allowing flowers to bloom.
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y our so-called Lords and Masters, as a result of
appropriately acting in accordance with the climate change evidence, which has been discussed now at 26 annual COP conferences, since Severin Suzuki addressed the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio.
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alculations per second and is capable of taking in 215 billion weather observations from all over the world every day. But despite its impressive computational power, and ability to give advanced warning, accurate long-range forecasts on a local level remain out of reach.
"It's the regional details that are important, about where the risks will be, where the rain will fall and getting that information to first responders as fast as we can," says Andy Kirkman, head of government services at the Met Office. That regional data could be provided in the future by the Met’s new supercomputer, which was announced on Monday and will be the most powerful climate supercomputer in the world. The government said that it will invest £1.2bn into the project. The supercomputer itself is expected to cost £854m, with the remaining funds set to go towards investment in the Observations network and programme offices over a 10-year period from 2022 to 2032. The machine will increase the Met Office computing capacity six-fold allowing it to better forecast for airports so they can plan for potential disruption.
The Met's new supercomputer will look to deliver at least a further three times supercomputing capacity in the last four years of the programme. But, aside from the extra processing power, the Met Office is also hoping the machine will make it easier to deal with the data coming out. “It's valued not just in the accuracy but making that data more available to people to work on,” Kirkman says.
Being able to do this will only become more urgent as global warming starts to change the environment. The computer will use all the data available to allow it to predict everything from reasonable scenarios, to what are termed “black swan events”, ones which are unpredictable and potentially catastrophic.
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biological, terrestrial and aquatic science, from the
deep oceans to the upper atmosphere and from the
poles to the equator. They coordinate some of the
world's most exciting research projects, tackling
major issues such as climate change, environmental
influences on human health, the genetic make-up
of life on Earth, and much more. NERC is part of
U.K. Research and Innovation, a non-departmental
public body funded by a grant-in-aid from the U.K.
government. Find out more at nerc.ukri.org.
Arctic Ice Loss Is Not as Scary as the Giant
Stirring in the South so WHAT ABOUT at
the other icy end of the planet?
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Added by Michael Grove at 15:38 on September 10, 2020