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When the coronavirus began its long, deadly march through the United States last spring, and states mandated that businesses and schools close and people stay home to limit the spread of the virus, the ability to communicate and work via videoconferencing platforms such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Skype was hailed as a technological blessing. In stark contrast with the purgatorial mood many people were experiencing during indefinite lockdown, newspaper articles set a celebratory tone, hailing...

SUBSCRIBE TO EIR Executive Intelligence Review. by John Sigerson, National Music Director of the Schiller Institute The following is an edited transcript of Mr. Sigerson’s opening remarks to Panel 4, “A Human Future for Youth: A Beethoven-Driven Renaissance of Classical Culture,” of the Schiller Institute’s December 12-13 Conference, The World after the U.S. Election: Creating a World Based on Reason. Let me attempt to introduce to you the real Ludwig van Beethoven, and to indicate why ...

The following is an edited transcript of the opening remarks delivered by Jacques Cheminade on December 13 during Panel 4, “A Human Future for Youth: A Beethoven-Driven Renaissance of Classical Culture,” of the Schiller Institute conference, “The World After the U.S. Election: Creating a World Based on Reason.” Mr. Cheminade is the founder and President of the Solidarité et Progrès political party in France. Subheads have been added. Schiller Institute Jacques Cheminade If you conside...

Arnab Goswami and the pale blue dot ByDushyantDushyant / Updated: Dec 25, 2020, 15:39 IST Even as a British media regulator comes down hard on a channel for its bigotry, tolerance seems light years away I was absolutely awestruck when I first read about the concept of the ‘observable universe’. That even with all of our technology, we can only see a portion of the entire universe. Wikipedia tells me this observable universe has two trillion galaxies. I then found that there is a ‘future ...

10204 1 Lion’s share: In the US, Facebook and Google together account for 90-95% of the total advertising revenue. Reuters Paranjoy Guha Thakurta Senior Journalist and Author IN recent weeks, a series of attempts have been made by governments in different countries, notably Australia and the United States, to curb the overweening dominance of two of the biggest digital monopolies on the planet. Unlike many parts of the world where a consensus has emerged that the unrestrained dominance of Al...

10 Space Books to Read so the Galactic Federation Will Talk to Us This post contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, Book Riot may earn a commission. You have to have seen the news, or at least the memes that resulted afterwards. If not, here’s the gist: the former head of Israel’s space security program came forward last week saying Israel and the United States had been in contact with the “Galactic Federation” but had been told to keep silent because the rest of hum...

SUBSCRIBE to EIR Daily Alert Service Three Initiatives To Save Our Civilization, To ‘Think Like Beethoven’ Dec. 16, 2020 (EIRNS)—On this the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth, it is important to reflect on Lyndon LaRouche’s call on all those concerned about finding a way out of the crisis of civilization, which has descended upon us over these past decades, namely his call to “Think Like Beethoven.” The closing panel of the Schiller Institute International Conferen...

Other way, at least theres this. at least theres there one deep vault that hopefully has been able to protect the seeds for basic survival crops like beans and rice and wheat. so maybe some day as a species, even after a global cataclysm we will be able regrow ourselves a human future. thanks, norway. i mean, coming up with an idea like this takes a pretty dark view of where humans are headed. what we are capable of doing to this planet. they call this thing the doomsday vault. after all. that...

So if, say, we have a global nuclear war or some international global pandemic that kills almost everyone or some radical global cataclysm that does humans in in some other way, at least theres this. at least theres there one deep vault that hopefully has been able to protect the seeds for basic survival crops like beans and rice and wheat. so maybe some day as a species, even after a global cataclysm we will be able regrow ourselves a human future. thanks, norway. i mean, coming up with an idea...

Able to protect the seeds for basic survival crops like beans and rice and wheat. so maybe some day as a species, even after a global cataclysm we will be able regrow ourselves a human future. thanks, norway. i mean, coming up with an idea like this takes a pretty dark view of where humans are headed. what we are capable of doing to this planet. they call this thing the doomsday vault. after all. that said, its nice to have. right? i mean, its nice that somebody is thinking about the value you...