Tag: Earth

One of the Most Important Things You Can Do on This Earth

When my 87-year-old mother was dying in my arms, after years of Parkinson’s disease stole her mobility and health, I found myself saying three words softly by her ear. “I’ve got you.” I repeated these three words over and over, as her breathing slowed, and her beautiful...

Why On Earth Would You Do a 4 Mile Swim Race?

Your fear of sharks is quickly erased by the brutal sting of a jellyfish. “Are you sure they’ve checked the water?” I said to the official, scratching my head with concern. A middle aged, bumbling, brown-haired man, who looked allergic to water, beamed a dismissive smile and nod...

The New Earth Collective: A Short Story

In the not-so-distant future, a remarkable transformation began to sweep across the world, and it all started with individuals embracing the idea of empowering their Higher Selves and breaking free from their ego’s programming. It was foretold by a 1% of the humans on the planet who chose to b...

The Harsh Truth No One Tells You About Living on This Bitter Earth

We were just walking on the beach when I saw her. She’d dug a hole in the sand. Not so much a hole as a bowl. A shallow little bowl, scrabbled out in the sand by tiny birdy footprints. There she sat, in her little bowl. A nest? Behind me, I hear my child. Mom, it’s bleeding ...

One of the Most Important Things You Can Do on This Earth

The Moon’s Appeal to Earth

Once upon a time, on a night when I couldn’t fall asleep, the Moon’s beauty made my heart beat stuck. It was a beautiful gem that held the secrets of the night and was hanging there in the heavens. I couldn’t resist its charm, so I said into the darkness, “Oh, you celestial e...

Want to live in one of the happiest places on earth?

I’m not talking about Disneyland, even though some of the benefits of living in Denmark might sound like they’re out of a fairytale, and they might have many people considering living here. Since 2012, Denmark has consistently had top rankings in the list over the happiest places in t...

Txai Surui ‘The Earth is Speaking’

A powerful speech by a young Amazonian activist at the opening of the United Nations Glasgow COP26 climate summit Txai Surui delivered her speech at COP26 in Glasgow. Source: Twitter/@wwfbrasil Txai Suruí midianinja — YouTube Txai Surui (Chi Su-ree) is a 24-year-old activis...

Earth Hour 2020: Managing our Oceans

For such a relatively small place, Hong Kong has a truly spectacular array of marine life. A study in 2017 found that despite making up just 0.03% of China’s seas, Hong Kong’s waters are home to 5,943 marine species, over a quarter of the 22,269 found in the whole of China. Hong Kong has...

Acknowledging Earth and enjoying your existence

Tranquillity is a feeling I feel like way too less people experience nowadays. In this hectic and globalized world, I often feel very restless and I regularly forget to simply sit back and take a deep breath — and just observe Mother Earth in its full bloom. Today, I pleased myself with a wond...

How Humans Are Changing How the Earth Rotates

Aswe get older, we learn that many of the “simple” things we learned in elementary school are more complex. The Earth is round, but it’s not perfectly round. Our north pole, the point around which the planet spins, isn’t perfectly at the northernmost point on the planet. And ...

Nurturing the Earth: Embracing Sustainable Living and Eco-Friendly Practices

In a world grappling with environmental challenges, the call for sustainable living and eco-friendly practices has never been more urgent. The echoes of our choices ripple through the delicate fabric of our planet, impacting not only our own lives but the lives of generations to come. In this compel...

Earth without Art Is Just … “Eh”

Throughout history, artists have used earth’s natural resources to create works of art. These can come from a variety of sources including rocks, minerals, clays, and even plant-based materials. Linseed oil, a common binder used in Western paintings, is made from flax seeds; dyes used to creat...

How we can learn from water recovery systems on the ISS to improve water recycling on Earth

t takes about $30,000 to send a single water bottle to space. With astronauts living on the International Space Station, it is incredibly costly to continue to provide them the resources that they need in order to both work and survive day-to-day in space. Due to the awfully high expenses of resu...

The greatest show on Earth

They nest in the soffits, and in the spring squabbling families vie for space. When I’m laying in bed I can hear the pitter patter of feet as they run up and down outside the window. I never want the starlings to move. I find their company joyous and uplifting. Many times I’ve looked ...

The best places to see wildlife around the world, according to the people behind Planet Earth III

Planet Earth III, the latest installment in the groundbreaking documentary series, continues to captivate audiences with its mesmerizing portrayal of the world’s diverse ecosystems and the incredible wildlife that inhabits them. As we embark on a virtual journey, guided by the lens of the tale...

Decoding Your Financial Future: What on Earth is a 401(k)?

The Retirement Quest Imagine this: you’re sitting on a beach, sipping a piña colada, and soaking up the sun. Retirement dreams, right? But to get there, you need a treasure chest of money. Enter the 401(k), your trusty map to financial bliss in your golden years. The 411 on 401(k)...

When Jesus Came To Earth and Pitched His Tent Among Us

I’ve never been enamoured with camping. The last time I went camping — even though it was August — was so cold that I vowed: “Never again.” Good luck to those who love life under canvas. I’m thrilled for you. Just don’t expect me to offer to join you...

Unraveling the Mystique: Hanuman Chalisa’s Alleged Calculation of the Distance from Earth to Sun

The Hanuman Chalisa, a devotional hymn dedicated to Lord Hanuman, is an integral part of Hindu spirituality. However, a fascinating and somewhat controversial claim has surfaced, suggesting that the ancient Sanskrit verses of the Hanuman Chalisa encode a calculation of the distance from Earth to the...

The Sound of the Earth Crying

I joined, somewhat by chance, the (abridged) Seeds of Radical Renewal course being offered by Emergence Magazine, which begins this week. Participants are asked to respond to weekly prompts and share with the rest of the attendees, if they so desire. I decided I would also share them here ...

Our book club selection this month: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

The story is told from several points of view, woven together by different voices. We get to know Chona, whose constant giving and kindness keep the town united. Chona’s husband, Moshe, oversees the Chicken Hill Theater, which he bravely integrates against strong opposition. We are able to obs...

Earth Chakras: Exploring Global Energy Vortexes and Spiritual Sites

Welcome to a journey into the spiritual heart of our planet! In this exploration of Earth Chakras, we will delve into the mystery and wonder of these unique energy centers. Each chakra, a vital part of Earth’s Energy Fields, holds a key to understanding the deeper connection between the Earth ...

Pluto in Scorpio: Unveiling Centuries of Earth-Shattering Transformations

During this period, Pluto in Scorpio coincided with the early Middle Ages, and detailed historical records are limited. However, Scorpio is associated with themes of transformation and power, and some potential developments during this time may have included: - The emergence of powerful dynasties...

Earth Egg

Unfortunately I do not have access to previous conversations with other Claude instances, so I cannot directly recap what was discussed. However, from the transcript you provided, it seems you were exploring an intriguing conceptual inversion of cosmological reference frames — envisioning E...

Earth Send On 5 January 2024

We are meeting in our meditation for the well-being of all life and in the first Earth Send of the year. Welcome to 2024! May this year be the manifestation of many of your longings and items on your vision board. I will go into the healing session right away. I thank everyone who has been sen...

Earth Send On 29 December 2023

On this last Friday of the year, we are meeting in our meditation for the well-being of all life on earth and in our reiki-send. Feel free to consciously go over your year, its high-lights, lessons, challenges and its lucky coincidences, solutions and encounters. I thank everyone who has been ...

Understanding Earth Energy

It’s not complicated, but we have difficulty connecting to Earth’s energy pattern. We work hard to appreciate Earth and all her beauty, and many of us, if not a significant number of us, are speaking out about the importance of healing the planet. But are we appreciating her energy? I...

Earth Send On 25 August 2023

Welcome, co-creators, welcome friends, to this gorgeous Friday in late August. Welcome to our meditation for the well-being of all life on earth. Welcome to Earth Send. The Earth Send began in June 2005, and it has been going on every Friday since. We sync by the day, not by the hour. From the 24...

Sharing Earth Knowledge: The Indigenous Peoples Initiative

The first photo taken from space was captured by a rocket-borne camera launched from New Mexico in October 1946. It showed a grainy black-and-white image with clouds and a sharp horizontal line where the atmosphere ended and outer space began. As the Space Race gave us the ability to reach grea...

Step 7 (Mother Earth Rising)

“The elders were wise. They knew that man’s heart, away from nature becomes hard; they knew that lack of respect for growing, living things, soon led to lack of respect for humans too.” — Chief Luther Standing Bear. We were once all Indigenous. We lived in harmony with the...

No High-Rise Left Standing from Early Mars or Earth

The latest analysis of data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) indicates that Mars was rippled with rivers and ponds for the first half of its history. Based on the analogy with Earth, it is conventionally expected that Mars developed microbial life when it lost its atmosp...

How close is the nearest black hole to Earth?

All across the Universe, massive stars collapse and die. The anatomy of a very massive star throughout its life, culminating in a Type II Supernova when the core runs out of nuclear fuel. The final stage of fusion is typically silicon-burning, producing iron and iron-like elements in the core...

Ask Ethan: How can you reason with a young-Earth creationist?

During the 20th and 21st centuries, science has provided robustly satisfying answers to these questions, with a suite of overwhelming evidence pointing to the consensus cosmological story. But even though the cosmological standard model is widely accepted by scientists, there are many religious adhe...

Ask Ethan: Could a black hole eventually swallow Earth?

Of all the ways that planet Earth could meet its eventual demise, death by black hole is among the most spectacular. While gamma-ray bursts, nearby supernovae, or giant collisions with asteroids or comets could easily pose a threat to all life on our planet, a black hole offers an even more grim fat...

Why Hasn’t Life Appeared on Earth Multiple Times?

This is a very cringe-worthy video of people not understanding the topic. It’s hard to refute this kind of thing because it’s just so fundamentally ignorant of the basics. Life can’t suddenly appear in a jar of peanut butter. That’s not how it works; it’s not ma...

What Does Salting Earth Do?

If you live in England you might have heard of Carly Burd. She’s a lady who has created a food garden to help feed people on disability pensions, aged pensions, and other people in the area who are struggling to feed themselves during the cost of living crisis. Over the weekend someone, or ...

Book: Wild Mind, Wild Earth

I ended my year with one final book: Wild Mind, Wild Earth by David Hinton. It is an argument that in order to save Planet Earth from the ongoing Sixth Extinction, it must be returned to a state of wildness, and in order to do that, we humans must ourselves return to a state of wildness th...

The 15 Greatest Cracks in Earth

In the heart of Turkmenistan’s Karakum Desert lies the Darvaza Gas Crater, often referred to as the “Door to Hell.” This fiery pit, with a diameter of approximately 70 meters, was created accidentally in 1971 when a Soviet drilling operation for natural gas went awry, causi...

When Earth Moves (But Not Earthquakes…)

When the Earth sets itself in motion, the consequences can be devastating. Landslides, complex and often unpredictable natural phenomena, pose a major threat to communities and the environments they occur in. These catastrophic events, which take place in different regions of the world,...

Great Lakes Earth: Geography

Let us say that, in the future, some scientists have created satellites capable of something that seems science fiction for now — punching the walls of the universe to study an alternate reality. By that scenario, some hundreds of “alternate Earths” from hundreds of alternate unive...

Snowball Earth

AAAS: “Massive lava outburst may have led to Snowball Earth.” About 717 million yrs ago a climate catastrophe struck the planet, an Icebox or Snowball Earth period. The cause was uncertain, until “now, more precise dates, reported last month in Earth and Planetary Science Lett...

Book Review: Earth’s Shifting Crust: A Key To Some Basic Problems Of Earth Science; by Charles H. Hapgood

History of Earth’s Crust Movements: The history of the study of Earth’s crust movements is a fascinating journey of scientific discovery and paradigm shifts. The book explores the significant milestones in our understanding of this phenomenon, beginning with the continental dr...

When the Earth Expanded

The Earth used to be a single landmass, where all continental crust was fully conjoined on a smaller radius sphere. However, ancient civilization was using advanced vortex-based technology, including as methods of war. Known as brahmastras, and just astras, these weapons were capable of te...

Calculating the Speed to Get to Low Earth Orbit (and Other Calculations)

I’m not going to give a full physics lesson — that would take too long. Instead, I’ll assume you already know some basic stuff. So, I will start with an object moving around a planet (it could be any planet) a height h above the surface. Note: for Low Earth Orbit, this height is ab...

Because She Is Everything

Who adores the mountains, the massive earth? The very rocks lurch toward her over endless eons offering their bulk as their tribute, moving as the water ebbs and flows, frozen deep, the rain. She loves every rock, every pebble, every clod. Who dwells in all the forests living by a clock of ...

What was it like when planet Earth first formed?

A little over 4.5 billion years ago, the seeds for planet Earth were put in place, right as the earliest parts of our Solar System began to form. Somewhere in the Milky Way, a large cloud of gas collapsed, giving rise to thousands of new stars and star systems, each one unique from all the others. S...

Calculating the Distance Between Two Points on Earth

As most of us know, Earth is not flat. It is a geoid or approximately an oblate spheroid. So, calculating the distance between two points on Earth directly on a map is not the distance you will travel in real life. Because you may have to dig through the earth to get to your destinati...

Conversation with the Great Earth Spirit — GAIA — Part 8

While the techniques employed by King Ur differed from the current practices of scientists manipulating DNA to blend diverse creature families, the outcomes are remarkably similar. King Ur’s actions have left an indelible mark, prompting a replication of past occurrences within you. Biologi...

Discussions with Inner Earth Warrior, Known in Ancient Times as Zalmoxis

A large white wolf came walking towards me from another hallway. He came up beside me and began to walk with me. While we walked, I felt this wolf was a familiar extraterrestrial energy. I went into a room that was given to me as a place that I could call my own. It was not like a resting area bu...

How Google Earth Mapped 98% of the World

The five-year-old boarded another train thinking his brother was on it. But at the end of the journey, he found himself in entirely new and unfamiliar territory. Saroo was one among the million daily passengers who pass through the largest railway complex in India, Howrah Station in the city of Kolk...

How Google Earth Mapped 98% of the World

aroo Brierley was five years old when he was separated from his parents. He and his older brother, Guddu, took a train from their home to a city 70 km south. Saroo fell asleep on a bench at the station and when he woke up, his brother was gone. The five-year-old boarded another train thinking his...