Ecozoic n.— «In Vermont, Sr. Gail Worcelo and lay associate Bernadette Bostwick, together with their community of Passionist nuns, are starting an Ecozoic Monastery in the Green mountains. They hope to soon found the first Catholic...
Ecozoic n.— «To reestablish the Earth in a vialbe situation requires a transition from the terminal Cenozoic era to what might be called the Ecozoic era.» —“Art in the Ecozoic Era” by Thomas Berry Art...
Ecozoic n. an (imaginary) era in the future when humans live in harmony with nature and the Earth. Also adj. Etymological Note: This term was popularized and probably coined by Thomas Berry. From Greek oikos ‘house’ + zoikos ‘of animals.’ (source:...
frame dragging n.— «“Frame dragging is like what happens if a bowling ball spins in a thick fluid such as molasses. As the ball spins, it pulls the molasses around itself. Anything stuck in the molasses will also move around the ball...
dutching n.— «One of them, to give the film “a comic-strip feel,” is a tilted-camera technique called “dutching.” “If you look at comic strips, almost every single frame is angled to create an effect,”...
global dimming n.— «Over the last four decades, scientists have observed a 1.3% per decade decline in the amount of sun reaching the Earth’s surface. This phenomenon, coined “solar dimming” or “global dimming,” is...