We have paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology — E.O. Wilson Last week I began untangling a string about how we as a species have evolved in the past two centuries into behaviors that run counter to our own survival. I described how modern public relations magicians had been…

Instead of knowledge, universal access has given the common man a rubber stamp inked with advertising slogans. The terms “red pill” and “blue pill” refer to a choice between the willingness to learn a potentially unsettling or life-changing truth by taking the red pill or remaining in contented ignorance with…

Don’t expect to see dome cities adorn the Red Planet like they did the covers of 1940s science fiction magazines. — I think Elon will find that space travel is easier than content moderation. – Tyler Crowley Just days before the enigmatic founder of PayPal, Tesla and Space X acquired control of Twitter for $44 billion, stock trading news wires lit up with the story of how Elon Musk had secured…

Can you provide a definition for the word “woman?” — Sen. Marsha Blackburn to Supreme Court nominee Jackson Looking up the background of Alicia Garcia-Falgueras, I immediately fell in love. Garcia-Falgueras is a neuroscientist in Amsterdam whose 46 publications probe the connection between musical composition and the brain structures of…

We are only just beginning to see what damage our dalliance with the Anthropocene has wrought. Among the reveals of the IPCC’s latest climate report is a look at where the scientific consensus erred in its previous reports. Surprising to many have been the admissions about how misplaced was the…

Science has given us a three year deadline to end growth as we know it. The IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) consists of contributions from each of the three IPCC Working Groups and a Synthesis Report, which integrates all the reports produced in the 10-year cycle. While “net-zero by 2050”…

The chief cause of problems is solutions Eric Sevareid was an American author, journalist and TV anchorman from 1939 to 1977, rightfully lauded with Emmy and Peabody Awards. J. Edgar Hoover thought he was a communist because he was an anti-ROTC protester in high school, anti-fascist during the Spanish Civil…

Migration of the displaced as an Anthropocene augury One in every 97 people in the world is now displaced, a refugee or migrant. At the same time, across Spain and Italy entire towns have been abandoned for lack of people. Climate change and human population growth combine into a dilemma…

News from Ukraine’s underground railroad Like most hippies, I was born with a congenital abnormality that expresses itself as profound aversion to war. We are the Peacenik Generation, with the bomber-inside-a-circle finger-painted on our foreheads in brilliant Day-Glo colors. …