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Frontpage Thought

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.

Eugene V. Debs


Our resident columnist James K Thornton is building us a library of 25 Biggest Ideas - please browse his stimulating and informed series of essays, and keep coming back for more!

The Foundation of the Long Dream

How to Be a Liberal 2005-2035

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Thirty-Ton Americans

Why Size Matters

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The Self-Aware Universe

Is there a Big Mind?

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What Goes Around - Comes Around

Interconnection and the politics of spirituality

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Noah and the Quark

Are We Life's Last Chance?

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Your Emotions

Where They Come From and What They Mean

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Genes in Our Lives

Nature and Nurture

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Openness and Tyranny

Making Society Transparent

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The Proper Study of Mankind

Growing Beyond Biomass

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Bacteria 'R' Us

The Origins of Complex Life

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God in Your Head

The Biology of Spiritual Experience

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You Have Three Brains

The Anatomy of Human Experience

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Global Extinction

Our Legacy to the World?

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You're an Illusion

The Theory of No-Self

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We're Drifting Apart

Plate Tectonics

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Global Warming

Our Loss of Innocence

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The Wild Mind

Ecopsychology and Mental Health

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It's All Relative

Einstein's Theories of Light and Gravity

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Hardwired for Extinction?

Shifting Baselines

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The Hidden Future

Stephen Wolfram's New Kind of Science

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Darwin's Dangerous Idea

The Theory of Evolution

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Faster than Light?

Bell's Theorem and Non-Locality

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We Are All Made of Stars

stellar evolution and death

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In the Beginning

The Big Bang and Us

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Does the Earth Think?

The Gaia Hypothesis

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The Writers

Writer: James K. Thornton

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Editor: Martin Goodman

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Publisher: Richmond Mayo Smith.

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