Google adds “task manager” to Gmail

Google Labs added a task manager to Gmail. It’s the typical Google design, which means no eye candy. Visually it’s more than basic but functionally it’s not bad. You can create indented task lists if you so desire and, a nice feature, create tasks from within Gmail by using SHIFT-T within the opened mail.
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(Stuart Kauffman) Reinventing the Sacred: Science, Faith and Complexity

The video by the leading complex systems scientist Stuart Kauffman proposes that the universe is being continuously creative, and that none of the tools of science have an effective way of studying it. It’s quite a long lecture with him just talking, without any jazzy Powerpoint presentation. Nevertheless, it’s a very profound [...]

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How responsible or irresponsible is it to have babies?

Talking about population growth: directly after finishing the previous post, I came across this BBC News article by Joanna Benn, reflecting on how responsible or irresponsible it is to have babies. [and it's worth following the link to the BBC site to read the many comments responding to the article].

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Joanna Benn

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How sustainable is growth? (an educational primer)

This 8-part lecture by Albert Bartlett, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Colorado (Boulder), is quite convincing and sometimes even entertaining. Bartlett uses simple arithmetic to demolish the myth of unfettered growth. He starts with population growth and then looks at energy (peak oil and US coal reserves) and comes to the conclusion [...]

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