Darwin's Gong Show
The Struggle to Form a Conscience
Larry Ellison, co-founder and chief technology officer of Oracle, is…
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As Soon as the Performance Began I Forgot My Worries
Fifty years ago, Philippe Petit wowed the world by walking…
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Hit Man’s Enablers
This is not the most pressing matter in the world.…
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Hallowed Be Thy Bootlicker
Trump got shot and didn’t die. Praise the heavens. Had…
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Piles of Rubble
By now, we’ve all seen ruins. Many of us have…
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The Hills Were Alive
Climate change deniers are missing a key piece of the…
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Just When We’re Starting to See the Light…
Like most of the world that cares about these things,…
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Your Empathy Is Not the Problem
In a December 6th column in the NY Times, Nicholos…
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The Word of Dog(matists)
In these sad and dangerous times—when if we’re not completely…
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Maybe We Have Evolution All Wrong
The National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens recently hosted…
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Baby Wants His Way
A quick survey of the feedback to the latest post…
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Making Self the Product
Mark Zuckerberg recently took his metaverse playground to the next…
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On My Desk I Have a Dragonfly (Or How I Came to Love Technology)
We’re going back in time, over twenty years, to revisit…
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Help for the Gun Crazies
It happened again. We wrote about one massacre, oh, way…
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Tech Pounds on Our Humanity… If We Let It
In an essay I wrote six years ago(!), I highlighted…
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Our Web of Meaning Is Still Ahead of Us
On April 22, 1970, over 20 million Americans participated in…
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BC Park Grows, Everyone Wins
More than 100 people stepped up recently with donations totaling…
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Your 2020 Oscar Winner(s)
The 2020 Oscar nominees are going to be announced on…
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Get the Good News Where You Can
Good news can be hard to come by. Let’s take…
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Facebook’s Doomsday Fantasy
Facebook has never had a shortage of critics. Its faults…
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Gen Z Emergency – The Book Review
Dr. Reese Halter, a champion on behalf of nature, has…
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The Opportunity Remains
A twenty-five year fan of 2001: A Space Odyssey, I’ve…
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The Gas Bag that Ate Our Attention
Trump, the gaudy (fill in the blank*) marketer elected out…
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The Regurgitation Machine
To some, GPT-3 is a marvel. To others, it’s a…
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A Case for Empathy
I recently read an essay by Namwali Serpell, author of…
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Will Vigilance Matter?
I’m a little late to the hit sci-fi novel The…
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Tech Buys Into Tune Out
It’s the “attention economy” someone somewhere told us. Silicon Valley…
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2+2 Now = Everything
This is not about fake news. That’s a separate realm.…
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Free Solo is Genius on Film
Free Solo is the name of the National Geographic documentary…
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Love! Nature – the Book Review
I recently finished Love! Nature by conservation biologist Dr. Reese…
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That Didn’t Take Long
So, right after scientists got their hands on the gene…
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The Stupidest Thing Uttered by a Smart Man
I don’t know Jeff Bezos. Never met him. Nevertheless, not…
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Our Home and Native Land
I came across, I don’t remember how, an interesting interactive…
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This Is Why You Keep Practicing Piano!
I’ve loved The Doors so long it never occurred to…
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Our Lazy Relationship with Reality
This week Roy Scranton — combat veteran, author, and Notre…
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