Tag: energy

The Great Stabilization

World + People

Outer Space

The Great Stabilization

Everything that produces heat—stars, the Earth, animals—also has to find a way to control and balance its temperature.

Łukasz Kaniewski

The Wheels of Energy

Soul + Body

Good Mood

The Wheels of Energy

Ancient Hindu and Buddhist Tantra describe various focal points on the human body, which can be “worked” on to attain physical and psychological benefits.

Agnieszka Rostkowska

The Essence of the Universe

Soul + Body

Good Mood

The Essence of the Universe

Originally conceived in China and Polynesia, these two concepts are ubiquitous in Western popular culture. They might also reveal something universal about the human experience.

Aleksandra Woźniak-Marchewka

Elements for the Soul

Soul + Body

Breathe In

Elements for the Soul

The most powerful element, in which the other four elements exist, is space. It is the infinite, cloudless sky. Observe it.

Dominika Bok

Dark Matters of the Universe

World + People

Outer Space, Science

Dark Matters of the Universe

Much of the physical world is invisible to us – none more so than the concepts of dark companions, dark matter and dark energy in astronomy.

Piotr Stankiewicz

Electricity and Fear

World + People

Science

Electricity and Fear

After the disasters at Chernobyl and Fukushima, mention of nuclear power plants is met with strong public trepidation. But, in the face of climate catastrophe, might this be our most feasible energy source?

Andrzej Krajewski

The Limits of Clean Energy

World + People

Science

The Limits of Clean Energy

If the world isn’t careful, renewable energy could become as destructive as fossil fuels.

Jason Hickel

A Quadrillion Joules in a Biscuit

World + People

Science

A Quadrillion Joules in a Biscuit

A physicist answers one of the pressing questions of our time: how much energy is there in a biscuit?

Like the Steam from Boiling Rice

Soul + Body

Wellbeing

Like the Steam from Boiling Rice

Qi—our life force, according to practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine and martial arts—is as invisible as the air.

Connecting the Dots

Soul + Body

Wellbeing, Breathe In

Connecting the Dots

Traditional Chinese medicine teaches of the meridian system – a series of pathways that connect the human body and mind, and through which ‘qi’ life energy flows.