Climate change is bringing life’s biggest disaster to us, and it’s coming within our lifetimes. I don’t just mean it will be humanity’s biggest disaster. I mean, with the possible exception of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs and changed all life on this planet, it will be the biggest disaster since life began… Continue reading Strange Bedfellows
Think of the evolutionary miracle that is love. There was a time before love existed. Then, somehow, some critter was born with a love gene. Some wild mutation invented love where it had never existed before. Its loved-on offspring did better, and survived longer, and carried the love gene forward into future generations. From egg-laying… Continue reading Love Mutation
Let’s all give ourselves credit – those of us that survived COVID, we just lived through our World War II. An event so monumental, a moment in time so paradigm-shifting, that we will forever speak of a pre-COVID world, and a post-COVID world. Actually, it’s more like if WWII did it with the Industrial Revolution.… Continue reading If WWII Did It with the Industrial Revolution
We are all connected. This is not a new observation. But what connects us is what we all have in common, the plants, the animals, each and every individual on earth: Unique in the known universe, we have life. Each and every one of us is experiencing the unlikely confluence of events that is the… Continue reading Sharing Our Aliveness
There are billions upon billions of stars, each more spectacular than the last. There are rules to the universe, a predictable and mathematically comprehensible order. As far as we know, we are the only form of life. Human intelligence is the only mechanism we know for observing this universe, witnessing these stars, figuring out the… Continue reading Witnesses
I’ve had a complicated relationship with writing. When I was really young, like age 9 – 11, I wrote creatively, and people who read it just loved it. It was the usual kid stuff – enchanted forests with talking animals, runaway orphans having adventures, stuff like that. This was in the 80’s, and my parents… Continue reading What’s the Assignment, Again?
By now, many people have heard of the paradigm-shifting research of Dr. Carol Dweck that led to her definition of a growth mindset versus a fixed mindset. “In a growth mindset, people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work—brains and talent are just the starting point. This view… Continue reading Old Dogs, New Tricks
