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Top Attractions in Southhampton, UK
Last Updated By VI Staff on November 24, 2024 Peter Sterling/stock.adobe.com Southampton is a bustling coastal city and historic port with a rich heritage dating back to as far as the Stone Age. Set in the county of Hampshire on England’s south coast, the city is built on a peninsula between the mouths of the Rivers Test and Itchen and is home to one of the world's largest natural harbors.
Vermont makes strides toward a renewable energy future
Though the tragic and costly impacts of changing weather extremes on Vermont continue to make headlines, they shouldn’t totally overshadow recent accomplishments in the fight to reduce global warming before it is too late. This progress is happening because New Englanders have demanded real leadership and action in the face of the climate crisis and elected officials are responding by thinking globally and acting locally. In Vermont, we have two recent pieces of good news.
Sterling: Some accomplishments
Though the tragic and costly impacts of changing weather extremes on Vermont continue to (justifiably) make headlines, they shouldn’t totally overshadow recent accomplishments in the fight to reduce global warming before it is too late. We have two recent pieces of good news. In June, the Vermont Legislature voted to create a 100% Renewable Energy Standard — just the second of its kind in the nation.
Commentary | Peter Sterling: Progress is being made in fight against global warming
Though the tragic and costly impacts of changing weather extremes on Vermont continue to (justifiably) make headlines, they shouldn’t totally overshadow recent accomplishments in the fight to reduce global warming before it is too late. This progress is happening because New Englanders have demanded real leadership and action in the face of the climate crisis, and our elected officials are responding by thinking globally and acting locally. In Vermont, we have two recent pieces of good news.
Peter Sterling: Making Strides In Global Warming Fight
Though the tragic and costly impacts of changing weather extremes on Vermont continue to (justifiably) make headlines, they shouldn’t totally overshadow recent accomplishments in the fight to reduce global warming before it is too late. This progress is happening because New Englanders have demanded real leadership and action in the face of the climate crisis, and our elected officials are responding by thinking globally and acting locally. In Vermont, we have two recent pieces of good news.
When Specialty Finance Meets Silicon Valley Innovation
In the rapidly evolving world of alternative credit, Specialty Finance strategies can offer access to high-quality deals, backed with strong partnerships, for investors seeking to generate current income via short-duration transactions. With geographical positioning and technological advancements to consider, what is so special about this sector? How have innovations like fintech impacted traditional banking and lending practices? What obstacles are presented for investors?
Sterling: Moving energy
There’s good news ahead in the fight against climate change. Utilities, business owners and energy experts now acknowledge there’s an affordable path to achieving what was once just a dream for environmentalists — a 100% renewable energy future for Vermont. This future includes more energy storage and conservation, weatherizing of our homes and a switch off of fossil fuels and onto hydro, solar and wind power for all of our electricity.
Peter Sterling: Moving energy is the key to Vermont’s 100% renewable energy future
There’s good news ahead in the fight against climate change. Utilities, business owners and energy experts now acknowledge there’s an affordable path to achieving what was once just a dream for environmentalists - a 100 percent renewable energy future for Vermont. This future includes more energy storage and conservation, weatherizing of our homes and a switch off of fossil fuels and onto hydro, solar and wind power for all of our electricity.
Moving Energy Is Key To Vermont's Renewable Energy Future
There's good news ahead in the fight against climate change. Utilities, business owners and energy experts now acknowledge there's an affordable path to achieving what was once just a dream for environmentalists - a 100% renewable energy future for Vermont. This future includes more energy storage and conservation, weatherizing of our homes and a switch off of fossil fuels and onto hydro, solar and wind power for all of our electricity.
Inside the Neuroscience Community: Peter Sterling Responds to Awais Aftab
Editor’s note: On July 29, Peter Sterling, a Professor of Neuroscience at the Perelman School of Medicine, published an essay on Mad in America that circulated widely within the neuroscience community. This is his response to a critique of his essay by Awais Aftab, which was published on Substack.
Causality in Mental Disturbance
Editor’s Note: The following is an original research article by Peter Sterling, Professor of Neuroscience at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. We are presenting it in its native format as a scientific paper. Here I comment on the 2022 review, “Causal Mapping of Human Brain Function” by Siddiqi et al., which appeared in Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
Guest Column: Getting closer to a fossil fuel free future
One of the proven ways to tackle the climate change crisis is to electrify everything. From the cars we drive to how we heat our homes, we are moving away from polluting fossil fuels to electricity. And it’s crucial that this electricity comes from clean, stably priced renewable sources. After all, it makes little climate sense to buy an electric car and power it with electricity generated by burning dirty oil or natural gas, as is often the case now in Vermont.
Sterling: Renewable energy future
One of the proven ways to tackle the climate change crisis is "electrifying everything." From the cars we drive to how we heat our homes, we are moving away from polluting fossil fuels to electricity. Therefore, it is even more crucial that this electricity comes from cleaner, stably priced, renewable sources. After all, it makes little climate sense to buy an electric car and power it with electricity generated by burning dirty oil or natural gas, as is often the case now in Vermont.
Vermont Takes the First Step Towards a Fossil-Fuel-Free Energy Future
Guest Column By Staff | on June 01, 2023 By Peter Sterling One of the proven ways to tackle the climate change crisis is “electrifying everything.” From the cars we drive to how we heat our homes, we are moving away from polluting fossil fuels to electricity. Therefore, it is even more crucial that this electricity comes from cleaner, stably priced renewable sources. After all, it makes little climate sense to buy […]
Peter Sterling: Vermont takes the first step towards a fossil fuel free energy future
One of the proven ways to tackle the climate change crisis is to “electrify everything.” From the cars we drive to how we heat our homes, we are moving away from polluting fossil fuels to electricity. Therefore, it is even more crucial that this electricity comes from cleaner, stably priced renewable sources. After all, it makes little climate sense to buy an electric car and power it with electricity generated by burning dirty oil, or natural gas is often the case now in Vermont.
Tolstoy's Hermit: Jay Schulkin
Jay Schulkin was a laboratory neuroscientist, outstanding for his extraordinarily broad perspective that deeply engaged the human condition. His recent books, for example, include: Mind in Nature (2023); The Anatomy of Fear (2024); Suicide in the United States (2024); A perspective on Opiate Addiction (2024).
Peter Sterling: A Vermont solution to fighting climate change
It’s 2023, and the question is no longer “is climate change here” but “what is Vermont going to do to stop it?” A proven way for Vermont to reduce our climate change-causing greenhouse gas emissions is to direct our utilities to stop purchasing electricity generated by burning fossil fuels and switch to electricity from local and regional wind, solar, and hydropower. We already have a law in place, the 2015 Renewable Energy Standard, that takes us part way there.
Sterling: 100% renewable energy
A Vermont solution to fighting climate change is 100% renewable energy. It’s 2023 and the question is no longer “is climate change here?” but “what is Vermont going to do to stop it?” A proven way for Vermont to reduce our climate change-causing greenhouse gas emissions is to direct our utilities to stop purchasing electricity generated by burning fossil fuels and switch to electricity from local and regional wind, solar and hydropower.
A Vermont Solution To Fighting Climate Change: 100% Renewable Energy
It's 2023 and the question is no longer "is climate change here" but "what is Vermont going to do to stop it?" A proven way for Vermont to reduce our climate change-causing greenhouse gas emissions is to direct our utilities to stop purchasing electricity generated by burning fossil fuels and switch to electricity from local and regional wind, solar, and hydropower. We already have a law in place, the 2015 Renewable Energy Standard, that takes us part way there.
A Neuroscientist Evaluates the Standard Biological Model of Depression
Editor’s Note: The following is an original research article by Peter Sterling, Professor of Neuroscience at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. We are presenting it in its native format as a scientific paper. In the paper, he reviews the evidence for the biological models of depression from his perspective as a neuroscientist.
Peter Sterling: The Inflation Reduction Act shattered the ceiling for clean energy in Vermont
Incredibly and finally, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has begun the shift to a clean energy America. For the first time ever, the massive resources of the U.S. Government will be mobilized to move our country off of climate change-causing fossil fuels and onto renewable energy sources like wind, solar and hydropower.
Sterling: Good for Vermont
The Inflation Reduction Act just shattered the ceiling for clean energy in Vermont. Incredibly and finally, the IRA has begun the shift to a clean-energy America. For the first time ever, the massive resources of U.S. government will be mobilized to move our country off climate-change-causing fossil fuels and onto renewable energy sources like wind, solar and hydro power.
Sterling: The Inflation Reduction Act just shattered the ceiling for clean energy in Vermont
by Peter Sterling, REV Incredibly and finally, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has begun the shift to a clean energy America. For the first time ever, the massive resources of the U.S. Government will be mobilized to move our country off of climate change causing fossil fuels and onto renewable energy sources like wind, solar and hydro power.
Peter Sterling: Shattering The Ceiling For Clean Energy In Vermont
Incredibly and finally, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has begun the shift to a clean energy America. For the first time ever, the massive resources of the U.S. Government will be mobilized to move our country off of climate change causing fossil fuels and onto renewable energy sources like wind, solar and hydro power.
Peter Sterling: The Inflation Reduction Act shattered the ceiling for clean energy in Vermont
Incredibly and finally, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has begun the shift to a clean energy America. For the first time ever, the massive resources of the U.S. government will be mobilized to move our country off of climate change-causing fossil fuels and onto renewable energy sources like wind, solar and hydropower.
Peter Sterling: Why is it easier to build a Dollar General than a solar panel in Vermont?
Over the last decade or so while most of us weren’t looking, something very concerning has happened in Vermont: it has become easier to build commercial strip development like a Dollar General store in a rural town than to build renewable energy. Between 2006-2020, 37 Dollar General stores opened in Vermont. By comparison, Vermont hasn’t allowed a utility scale wind array to be built since 2012 and none are being planned for the foreseeable future.
Dollar General Vs Solar Projects
Over the last decade or so while most of us weren’t looking, something very concerning has happened in Vermont: it has become easier to build commercial strip development like a Dollar General store in a rural town than to build renewable energy. Between 2006-2020, 37 Dollar General stores opened in Vermont. By comparison, Vermont hasn’t allowed a utility scale wind array to be built since 2012 and none are being planned for the foreseeable future.
Sterling: Dollar General vs. solar panel?
During the past decade or so while most of us weren’t looking, something very concerning has happened in Vermont: It has become easier to build commercial strip development like a Dollar General store in a rural town than to build renewable energy. Between 2006-20, 37 Dollar General stores opened in Vermont. By comparison, Vermont hasn’t allowed a utility scale wind array to be built since 2012 and none are being planned for the foreseeable future.
Mythbusting Crypto Investing
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Vermont isn’t as green as you think
By Peter Sterling Vermont’s electric sector is estimated to contribute only 2% of our climate change causing greenhouse gas emissions — seemingly insignificant compared to the whopping 74% of emissions coming from our transportation sector and from the energy we use to heat and cool our homes and businesses.
Why Deaths of Despair Are Increasing in the US and Not Other Industrial Nations
Why Deaths of Despair Are Increasing in the US and Not Other Industrial Nations—Insights From Neuroscience and Anthropology Abstract The US National Academy of Sciences reports rising mortality for US adults, most steeply for White adults with a secondary education or less. The rise is largely attributable to deaths of despair (suicide and poisoning by alcohol and drugs) with strong contributions from the cardiovascular effects of rising obesity.
Peter Sterling: Vermont’s Dirty Little Secret: Our State Government Is Anti-Renewable Energy
Talk to anyone who has tried to bring renewable energy to Vermonters and they will tell you the same thing: despite our green reputation and the thousands of Vermonters who have asked for leadership to avoid the existential crisis climate change presents to humanity, our state government works every day to put the brakes on new solar energy and wind power projects.
Commentary: Taking action in Vermont
The global climate negotiations in Glasgow just wrapped up, and the U.S. Congress is negotiating the Build Back Better Act — which currently includes the largest investment in climate action in United States history. Meanwhile, the Vermont Climate Council is working to deliver Vermont’s first-ever Climate Action Plan by Dec. 1. As a global problem that requires local action, climate solutions are rightly being considered simultaneously at the international, national and state levels.
Why I joined the Freedom Rides
(2020). What’s old is new again: In the civil rights movement and summer 2020, Rye youth lead the way. Rye History, https://www.ryehistory.org/stories/2020/12/10/whats-old-is-new-again-in-the-civil-rights-movement-and-summer-2020-rye-youth-lead-the-way.
Blaming Our Genes: The Heritability of Behavior
When it comes to behavior, genetics may play a larger role than you think. Twin studies offer unique opportunities to measure genetic influences associated with individual differences in a behavior. Photo source: Amit Ranjan, via Unsplash It’s easy to accept that human disorders such as phenylketonuria or cystic fibrosis or Huntington’s disease have a wholly genetic basis.
Peter Sterling
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Peter Sterling
Peter Sterling is currently Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania. He arrived in 1969 and closed his laboratory in 2009. By then he had moved to a small farm in the mountains of western Panama, from whence he explores tropical agriculture and life among indigenous peoples in Central America while continuing to write. His books include Principles of Neural Design with Simon Laughlin (2015) and What Is Health?
Some Principles of Human Design for a Post-COVID World
When Linnaeus named us Homo sapiens, he recognized that we are a type of animal. The conversation beyond the pandemic may run from this core fact, but it cannot hide. Birds fly, turtles crawl, and insects breed prodigiously. Each has a fundamental nature that facilitates certain behaviors and impedes others. If we are to find our way to a new order that better meets our own deep needs, and also the planet’s, we need to grasp what is fundamental to our biological nature.
Attention! One Morning with a Roving Mind
Scene: A small farm in the mountains of western Panama. For a man with attention deficit disorder, today was perfect. I arose when I awoke and performed what my dad used to call his “ablutions.” These for me are stereotyped: brush teeth, then floss, then a fine, stiff brush at the gum line. Nothing distracts me from this routine.
We are all mutts
David Linden’s new book, Unique, inquires into the extent and origins of human individuality. Such an inquiry, as he acknowledges, unavoidably challenges our concepts of nation, gender, and race. Thus, it is inherently political and incites strong passions. In this context, Linden promises to play it straight by synthesizing the current scientific consensus, explaining the debates, and pointing out “where the sidewalk of our understanding simply ends”. And that’s what he does.
What Is the Sound of Thought?
Reading linguistic thought directly from the brain has brought us closer to answering an age-old question — and has opened the door to many more. By: Andrea Moro Why do we include the sounds of words in our thoughts when we think without speaking? Are they just an illusion induced by our memory of overt speech? These questions have long pointed to a mystery, one relevant to our endeavor to identify impossible languages — that is, languages that cannot take root in the human brain.
COVID-19 and the Harsh Reality of Empathy Distribution
This essay first appeared on The MIT Reader on April 20, 2020 Across the world, many of us are imagining a possible rendezvous with Death. Some are turning to common addictions, such as alcohol and drugs. A study last week found that nearly 40 percent of remote-working New Yorkers are drinking while working, and one in five are stockpiling booze. Others are coming together, figuratively speaking, to help those in great need.
What Is Health?
Overview Author(s) Praise Summary An argument that health is optimal responsiveness and is often best treated at the system level. Medical education centers on the venerable “no-fault” concept of homeostasis, whereby local mechanisms impose constancy by correcting errors, and the brain serves mainly for emergencies. Yet, it turns out that most parameters are not constant; moreover, despite the importance of local mechanisms, the brain is definitely in charge.
What Is Health?
An argument that health is optimal responsiveness and is often best treated at the system level.Medical education centers on the venerable "no-fault" con...
Richard H. Masland (1942-2019)
Main Text Richard H. Masland––Dick to all who knew him––died on December 13, 2019, from cancer, four years after his initial diagnosis. During this interval, while enduring major fluctuations in health, Dick managed to start and complete an approachable and reflective book, We Know It When We See It: What the Neurobiology of Vision Tells Us About How We Think (March 2020).
How Neuroscience Could Explain the Rise of Addictions, Heart Disease and Diabetes in 21st Century America
The conditions of human life began to improve with the Enlightenment of the 18th century, and we are better off now by many measures: food access, health, lifespan, and so on. But it hasn’t been an unbroken line of advancement.
Sterlo's crucial advice to Blues rookies
Now, finally, we get down to what it's all about. I still get excited at this time of year. It's the only time where I actually miss playing. Suncorp Stadium's a bit special, too. Lang Park. It's a different beast. It's a great atmosphere up there, a real 'us against them' mentality. That's what Origin was built on and it's still the best part of the contest. You feel it most when you go north of the border. Tonight, NSW get to face that; five players for the first time, and that's a big test for them.
Point of View: Predictive regulation and human design
Abstract Organisms evolving toward greater complexity were selected across aeons to use energy and resources efficiently. Efficiency depended on prediction at every stage: first a clock to predict the planet’s statistical regularities; then a brain to predict bodily needs and compute commands that dynamically adjust the flows of energy and nutrients. Predictive regulation (allostasis) frugally matches resources to needs and thus forms a core principle of our design.
Point of View: How scientists can reduce their carbon footprint
Anthropogenic climate change is the single greatest challenge facing our planet and our species. What was once “an inconvenient truth” has become an imminent global emergency that will lead to rising seas, the extinction of species and, very likely, large-scale social instability. Thus far, however, government actions have had only modest effects on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It is clear that individuals and communities need to take independent action.
Principles of Neural Design
Neuroscience research has exploded, with more than fifty thousand neuroscientists applying increasingly advanced methods. A mountain of new facts and mechanisms has emerged. And yet a principled framework to organize this knowledge has been missing. In this book, Peter Sterling and Simon Laughlin, two leading neuroscientists, strive to fill this gap, outlining a set of organizing principles to explain the whys of neural design that allow the brain to compute so efficiently.
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