Just a few more.
* An end to post-Fordist consumption madness?
* Not Gaia, but Medea: how nature kills her young.
While Lovelock uses "Gaia" to refer to Earth's biosphere as a kindly mother goddess, Ward uses "Medea" as a reference to the mother in Greek myth who killed her own children. Ward says life, like Medea, eventually sows the seeds of its own near-destruction - over and over again. "Life boils up and bubbles up, and through its own waste products and activities makes the planet no longer inhabitable," he said.Via MeFi.
* Inside credit-card agency snooping.
* Racism and science fiction, by the great Samuel Delany.
* And some bad news for atheists.
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