Is the earth just a collection of lifeless matter—a solid rock floating in the vast cosmic void? Is life just...
Cognition is a function of temperament. First, you seek in all directions—you need sanguinity, air. Phlegmatism, fluid, gives you perseverance,...
For several centuries, scientific materialism neglected the experiential presuppositions of its own research activities, striving to achieve an outside, disembodied, “God’s eye view” of the universe. In their recent book, The Blind Spot, astrophysicist Adam Frank, theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser, and philosopher Evan Thompson offer a philosophical intervention into modern...
Johannes Kronenberg has been researching and working on sustainable development and its spiritual and anthroposophical dimensions for seven years. Now,...
The more diverse a meadow is, the more stable its identity. That makes sense to us. But what shapes our...
Separate entities can either compete or develop strategies to cooperate. In either case, the starting point is separation. This is a foundational assumption of modern biology. But what if relatedness is more fundamental? How would we behold living beings and what we call their environment? When you go out into...
When art helps us deepen our understanding of nature, art becomes research. Eduardo Rincón, co-leader of the Agriculture Section, engages...
Biodiversity is a hot topic in academia today. It seems that wherever civilization spreads, species diversity dwindles—natural habitats are lost,...
Picture-forming methods like copper chloride crystallization, capillary dynamolysis, and round picture chromatography are now entering the era of computerized image analysis. Is this an opportunity to shape human spiritual evolution? In our PhD work at the Society for Cancer Research, we use picture-forming analysis—a complementary research approach for quality investigation....
Microbes were on Earth for three billion years before any other living creature appeared. As Florianne Koechlin puts it, they...
A plant transplanted from one bioregion to another area remains the same species, but its expression embodies its new environment....
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