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Ted Lefroy

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Ted Lefroy is an adjunct professor at the University of Tasmania. He trained in agricultural science and worked in extension and rural development before becoming director of the Centre for Environment at the University of Tasmania in 2005 and head of research at the Tasmanian Instiute of Agriculture in 2018.

Did pirates and a First Nations chief help kick-start the Enlightenment?

The Enlightenment is often talked of as a 'Western' project, but European thinkers were influenced by the societies they met on their colonial travels

Rawson’s “Human/Nature” challenges mainstream ideas about conservation

"Human/Nature", by Jane Rawson - past Environment Editor at The Conversation - offers some confronting questions from a lifelong conservationist

The tyranny of the cloud: how we became serfs to big tech

In ‘Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism’, Yanis Varoufakis gives a whistlestop tour of economic history and where capitalism went wrong

The supernormal confronts the supernatural in Karl Ove Knausgaard’s prophetic new series

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s novels The Morning Star and The Wolves of Eternity offer a cautionary tale about Silicon Valley’s search for immortality

Panpsychism revived, in James Bridle’s “Ways of Being”

"Ways of Being" argues that intelligence isn't a purely human phenomenon, but in doing so strays into a quasi-mysticism to explain the material

How do we know what we know? The question that untangles Magisteria’s science and religion

Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science and Religion, by Nicholas Spencer, paints a history of entwined attempts to understand, glossing over religion's response to conflicting ideas

The fifth horseman: environmental determinism rides again in ‘An Inconvenient Apocalypse’

‘An Inconvenient Apocalypse’ predicts an inevitable, unavoidable environmental collapse - a doomist view that discounts our ability to change our future

The Tao of Magical Thinking: pseudoscience in Jeremy Lent’s ‘The Web of Meaning’

In The Web of Meaning, Jeremy Lent favours convenient ideas over accurate, and in doing so repeatedly presents speculative and even disproven theories as facts
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