Toward late afternoon, the light on a high overcast day becomes white and ethereally bright. Through the bare branches and beyond the tall pines, subtle hues of blue and gray…
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thoughts on life
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Homo sapiens is an experiment in consciousness that is failing. Why are we failing, and what would it mean to succeed as a species? Not only the diversity of life…
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Having endured a bad, but short-lived head cold before Christmas, I’ve been unable to shake a minor cough with major phlegm production and slowly diminishing energy since. On Thursday I…
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The cognitive revolution, which made all 7.7 billion of us “fully modern humans,” with the capacity for diverse languages, cultures, art, science and technology, occurred about 100,000 years ago in…
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The day is cold and gray. For a few minutes however, a silvery light glistens off the rippling creek. The waterway makes a gentle S curve at this spot, and…
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“We are going to do the worst thing to you; we are going to deprive you of an enemy.” Mikhail Gorbachev, 1989 Thirty years ago today I was in the…
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Bare branches and bushes afford a long view downstream. As usual, it takes a while for the senses to become attuned to sounds, sights and smells of the water, sky,…
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In the 4 billion-year history of life on earth, from single-celled bacteria to trilobites to dinosaurs to humans, there have been five mass extinctions. The Washington Post recently published a…