James lovelock brief biography of princess
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Gaia's evil twin: Is life its own worst enemy?
Earth
By Peter Ward
Interactive graphic:Medean extinctions throughout evolutionary history
THE twin Viking landers that defied the odds to land on Mars in 1976 and 1977 had one primary goal: to find life. To the disappointment of nearly all concerned, the data they sent back was a sharp dash of cold water. The Martian surface was harsh and antibiotic and there was no sign of life.
To two NASA scientists, James Lovelock and Dian Hitchcock, this came as no surprise – in fact, they would have been amazed to see any evidence of life on Mars. A decade before Viking, Lovelock and Hitchcock, both atmospheric scientists, had used observations of the Martian atmosphere to deduce that there could be no life on the planet.
From their research arose one of the most influential, ground-breaking scientific ideas of the 20th century – the Gaia hypothesis, named after the ancient Greek goddess of the Earth, a nurturing
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Release Your Inner Nymph
“We are empowered by our femine nature and biology.”
In the 1960’s James Lovelock Said, “All life, and all living things on this planet, are part of a single, all-encompassing global entity or consciousness.” We are all part of this world; spirits of naturlig eller utan tillsats . Britannica defines Mother Earth as “simply the mother,” and “all things come from her, return to her, and are her…”
The natural world is universally known in cultures around the globe as “Mother Nature.” This honorary feminine title was given for the creative and controlling force of nature as a phenomenon of this physical world. In mythology, nymphs are daughters of nature; they are her spirit influencing the lives of mankind. All things come from her; all things return to her. The interconnectedness of nature to all living things is so fitting to represent women and our interconnected passion for life.
What makes an empowered woman?
Kelly Greiner of Mountain Valley Moments
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The headline in the Guardian, “A cool flame: how Gaia theory was born out of a secret love affair,” caught my eye. A hidden figure, behind a concept that I’ve known of since I was a young environmental writer? That was intriguing in itself, and the man in question was James Lovelock, a memorable contributor to the Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability. (I always like to read about “my” authors, and it’s a delight to know that quite a few of them read this newsletter.) As inom read the review, though, what came to mind was something else: T S Eliot’s secret love affair.
Indeed, secret love affairs seem to be the beställning of the day. The story Jon Watts, the Guardian's global environment writer, tells in The Many Lives of James Lovelock: Science, Secrets and Gaia Theory is unique, I suspect, in part because the subject was an active participant when he was over 100 years old, and his secret lover was 92. Watts ended up as a kind of go-between, conveying to Dian Hitchcock tha