It is often said that a society is blessed when old people plant trees under whose shade they will never sit. Planting trees is a good start, but I would say a society is blessed when no one cuts down any tree that grew there before they were born. Our world does not just [...]
“I want students to come to my class aware and appraised of the scientific consensus, endowed with intimate knowledge of the plant and animal world, undaunted by the prospect of fixing a broken pipe or upcycling a torn shirt, so that we may spend the precious time we have together preparing the world that [...]
It’s telling when you have to start a discussion of a philosopher’s biography with *no spoilers!* But such is the case with Emily Herring’s biography of Henri Bergson, HERALD OF A RESTLESS WORLD. “The world Henri Bergson was born into was one in which aspects of reality once believed to be stable and eternal [...]
“We are fundamentally Earthlings,” writes Bjornerud in TURNING TO STONE. In the science fiction novella Story of your Life,[i] a linguist and a physicist attempt to initiate a dialogue with an extraterrestrial species hovering in spaceships above Earth. As the linguist studies the alien language, her perception of time changes. She experiences glimpses of [...]
“Being an earthling in the present moment is an intrinsically sad proposition; arguably even sadder than previous incarnations due to the social dimension of disaster, hastening an already too fleeting finitude. In simpler terms, it did not need to be like this. Humans did not need to trash the planet. They – we [...]
Image: What do planets outside our solar system, or exoplanets, look like? A variety of possibilities are shown in this illustration. Scientists discovered the first exoplanets in the 1990s. As of 2022, the tally stands at just over 5,000 confirmed exoplanets. As Earthlings, we seem to have an unstoppable [...]
“In the realm of colour, chemical colour, synthetic colour, nothing remains the same as it was yesterday.” - Esther Leslie [Synthetic Worlds] In the ocean your global positioning is in constant fluctuation. If you are salmon in the wild a krill appeals to you. It [...]
Review by Oscar Salguero May 19, 2021 Outside the window, a mask is not an unusual sight. I am stuck at home, scrolling, when I stumble upon an Instagram post Instagram post that was later deleted (or archived) as of December 24, 2021 of a woman wearing an elaborated red mask, 105 [...]