The War on Sensemaking
What can we trust? Why is the ‘information ecology’ so damaged, and what would it take to make it healthy?
The Body Keeps Score Audiobook
In this full audiobook of “The Body Keeps the Score,” Bessel van der Kolk delves into the complex interplay between the brain, mind, and body in the healing process. Recommended for those interested in understanding how to cultivate resilience and healing.
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
In the film “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” Baldwin traveled south to find out what really became of Black Americans after the protest movements of the nineteen-sixties.
Napa County Fire Incident Map
An occasionally up-to-date display of current evacuation zones for Napa County.
Redwood Coast Tsunami Work Group
Valuable source of information on tzunami and earthquake history, preparation, and realtime news.
Windy
One of the better apps for observing realtime weather patterns, including wind speed and direction, satelite radar data, humidity, polution, and other weather patterns.
LibreOffice
LibreOffice is a powerful and free office suite used by millions of people around the world.
Glass Walls
Music legend and activist Paul McCartney delivers a powerful narration of this must-see video. Watch now to discover why everyone would be vegetarian if slaughterhouses had glass walls.
Lifeboat
Volunteers from a German nonprofit risk the waves of the Mediterranean to pluck refugees from sinking rafts, which had set out from Libya, in the middle of the night.
The Math Revolution
An Atlantic article reviewing the practice of teaching math through problem solving.
Schooling the World: The White Man’s Last Burden
If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it? You would change the way it educates its children.
Democracy and Education
The seminal work on public education by one of the most important scholars of the century.
Civil Disobedience
Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a moral duty to avoid allowing a government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated to write this essay by his disgust with the U.S. system of enslavement and the illegal land grab commonly referred to in the U.S. as the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), and in Mexico as the Intervención Estadounidense en México (U.S. intervention in Mexico).
Radio OpenSource
Open Source is as a North American conversation with global attitude. Christopher Lydon recorded the original podcast in 2003 with Dave Winer. The rest is history in the making.
