meditation

The animal spotted me jogging up the path in the city park. It was the size and shape of a dog, but moved like a cat.

Beyond town is a large canyon, stretching for miles into undeveloped land. Less than half mile from a gate that’s as far as you can drive in on the gravel…

The greatest unanswered question of biology is still the first one: How did life begin on earth? A corollary of this question is: How common is life in the universe?…

Here in California, Silicon Valley types are still enamored with the idea that computers have brought humankind to “the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on…

In astrophysics, as in life, there are generally three views of where things are headed. Let’s call them evolution, entropy or enervation. In other words, better, worse or the same.

On a warm, hazy afternoon, people cross the iron footbridge on bikes, foot or horseback. I sit about 75 meters upstream from the bridge. And though I’m in the open,…

On one of the hottest days of the year, a mother and her young son walk downstream in the shallow creek at midday.

There was a time when truth-telling meant something, even on TV’s nightly news. But “speaking truth to power” has become a hollow cliché. After all, challenging readers to think and…