The Pacific islands struggling to survive

The article in Swedish: Stillahavsöarna som kämpar för att överleva A volcanic eruption in the north, recurring flooding and on top of that, a direct threat from Donald Trump. “How do you sleep at night?” I asked Vanuatu’s minister for climate change, Ralph

Sammanhang: ...Tolu’s voice trembles slightly as he gets deeper into his story. He tells me that his six-year-old son has been buried for many years in Vatuwaqa, the graveyard located on the green eastern coastal strip of Suva. ...

Omnämnda platser: Bokaitoktok, Island, Netherlands. Omnämnda personer: Christiana Figueres, Donald Trump, Middle East.

”Scientists Portrayed as Mass Murderers”

For a Swedish version, read here. Outside an underground lecture hall at Tokyo University a crowd is bustling. Neuroscientists, psychologists, physicists, computer scientists and other experts have gathered here to discuss consciousness – the elusive inner

Sammanhang: ...David Chalmers, the winner of the bet over the case of wine, has been more vocal about the choice of words. Though not a proponent of IIT, Chalmers is an interested observer. ...

Omnämnda platser: Photo, Conducting, Venice. Omnämnda personer: John Lennon, with questions, Philip Goff.

En filosof bjuder på skvaller

Jag gillar verkligen Daniel Dennetts självbiografi – av skäl jag inte är helt bekväm med. Den nu 81-årige Dennett är en viktig filosof. Han är en stark förespråkare för sekulär humanism och författare till inflytelserika böcker om medvetandet, evolutionen

Sammanhang: ...Fri Tanke förlag kommer under året att ge ut Daniel Dennetts bok på svenska. I’ve been thinking Daniel C. Dennett W. W. Norton & Company F&F i din mejlbox! Håll dig uppdaterad med F&F:s nyhetsbrev! ...

Omnämnda personer: Nobelpristagaren Gerald Edelman, Daniel Dennetts, Daniel C..