Monthly Archives: July 2009

Brian Swimme Poet of the Cosmos

Posted on July 6, 2009 by dpendle

Attending Brian Swimme’s recent evening talk at the Schumacher College was an inspiring and uplifting and unusual experience. The man is so passionate about the evolution of the cosmos, tracking its deep time origins, tracing lightly over the mathematics, physics … Continue reading →

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LSE talk by Susan Neiman titled What Makes Heroes?

Posted on July 4, 2009 by dpendle

Susan Neiman is a moral philosopher and a distinguished scholar, she is director of the Einstein Forum and is used to asking big questions and making the tools of her academic discipline relevant to the average, thinking citizen. She has … Continue reading →

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Initial Impresssions from SDi UK Summit 26-27 June 2009 with Don Beck

Posted on July 3, 2009 by dpendle

This post was written in response to the summary of the UK Summit event posted by Keith Rice on his blog Keith as you have done the ‘fill in’ so well on the facts I shall not blog my own … Continue reading →

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