Sifting through some of my photos from last year, I found a shot that tickled and confused me at the time that I took it, and still does now. I would like to share it with all of you. But first some background: Last summer, I was watching my city's…
This article by Alex Williams covers a lot of territory, including: The environmental costs of suburban life, which evolved around the highway system, cheap oil, and the automobile and now typically consumes several times more energy per person (and thus fossil fuels) than urban living. There’s all that driving. There…
See this post from Free Press to learn more about the big gift the FCC just handed to huge media corporations: On Feb. 4, the Federal Communications Commission finally released the details of the devastating rule change it voted on back in December. These new rules would allow one company…
I believe that a strong foundation of critical thinking, innovation, curiousity about the natural world, rigorous adherence to non-biased exploration, and a bent toward problem solving is part of what has made our country great. I think science, when at its best, fosters those characteristics, and can help us continue…
What is the "it" referenced above? "It" is the rich subjective experience of consciousness. There's nothing else quite like consciousness, right? Writing in Seed Magazine, Nicholas Humphrey suggests that, perhaps, consciousness is "not such a big deal." OK, but what is consciousness? Why do we see the vivid redness of…