Hello everyone! The blog post today is an interview of Genevieve Williams, Writing Center Coordinator and community yoga instructor at BU. The interviewer is Thara Michaelis, an Acquisitions Specialist at the University Library and lover of yoga. The interview is available via the audio file embedded at the top of this page or the transcript […] Read more ›
Family environments may contribute to children's long-term health through biological processes, including epigenetic regulation such as DNA methylation (DNAm). However, most studies in this area focus on Euro-American populations while also rarely including fathering data. The current study investigated children's blood DNAm associations with positive (father caregiving) and negative (parental conflict) family dynamics in a smaller-scale subsistence society living in the Congo Basin rainfores... Read more ›
Global demand for palm oil, soy, and coconut has driven an 80% rise in biodiversity loss since 1995, and most impacts are far from consumers. Read more ›
Half-sour pickles are crunchy and bright green with a distinct snap and gentle flavor Read more ›
First - a little forest bathing with the mosquitos and morning coffee ☕ PXL20260620132933184 PXL20260620132906907 PXL20260620134021791 PXL202606201402248... Read more ›
Author: Alexander Dunlap & Josephine BeckerTitle: Introducing Anarchy and DegrowthSubtitle: Towards rebellious, prefigurative, and insurrectionary degrowth ecologiesDate: December 17, 2025Notes: This was the editorial introduction to the special issue of Degrowth Journal on anarchy and degrowthSource: dir="ltr"> Abstract Where is the anarchy in degrowth? This introduction to the Special Issue: Anarchy and Degrowth confronts the persistent absence or marginalization of anarchism within the deg... Read more ›
Officials in Assam recently captured a black panther, or melanistic leopard, on a camera trap in Dulung Reserve Forest for the first time ever. Read more ›
Hear directly from anarchist comrades in Sudan in this presentation plus Q&A hosted by Black Anarchist Resistance: Sudanese Solidarity (BARSS), a new coalition centering support for Sudan while raising the banner of Black liberation globally. William C. Anderson, author of Nation On No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition, will share a political grounding linking the […] The post appeared first on . Read more ›
Nature Climate Change - Author Correction: Priority science can accelerate agroforestry as a natural climate solution Read more ›
People walk through a shopping district in Brighton Beach in Brooklyn on May 12, 2026, in New York City. HUD overhauled the way it funds the nation’s largest homeless prevention program, putting 2,800 New Yorkers at risk of losing housing. [ ] Read more ›
On Monday, June 8, I received terrible news from my friend Rosa, a youth activist and the founder of three community gardens in the impoverished neighborhoods of northern Bogotá. Thugs had destroyed one of their spaces, the Pollinators’ Garden in Suba. Emboldened angry men with machetes, shovels, and axes chopped down tomate de árbol and avocado trees, multiplying [...] Read more ›
I tried growing the straight species but my heavy clay soil + wet winters killed it. They are a local native, but the ones I've personally seen have been on ... Read more ›
For the first time, Permaculture magazine will be available in Waterstones! 62 shops across the UK will be stocking us from the end of July, with our Autumn issue, PM129. This is an excellent step for permaculture, taking us to new audiences at a critical time, when our practical and radical solutions are so desperately […] The post appeared first on <a href=" Read more ›
Positive psychology can help with resilience, meaning, and grounded hope during medical adversity. Read more ›
Ambient-folk producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Hana Stretton has announced her upcoming album, tiarn, and shared new single, “Stove”. Read more ›
Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity
“The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state.” Read more ›
Biodiversity loss is expected to escalate with every increment of global warming. Simultaneously, land-intensive climate change mitigation strategies, such as afforestation and bioenergy, may further compound biodiversity loss. So far, the magnitude of these two drivers has not been compared in the context of temperature overshoot, meaning the temporary exceedance of a targeted global warming limit. By combining spatial data on climate refugia (areas sheltering biodiversity from climate chang... Read more ›
I’m releasing this essay from behind the paywall. Read more ›