Any physical action, properly studied and practiced, could no doubt be accomplished with a reasonable amount of skill, if not flair.
Also it isn’t clear yet whether it was an act of God or an act of war.
All the discussion in the meeting that day had centered on the impacts to humans. That would be the usual way of most such discussions; but whole biomes, whole ecologies would be altered, perhaps deva...
Of course we must do it! It is a matter of spirit! And that’s not to say it could have been done earlier, the infrastructure had to be installed, that’s always messy, but now we are ready for the art...
Arabic, like Greek, had been a scientific language early on,
It was that ocean heat that caused the First Pulse to pulse, and later brought on the second one. People sometimes say no one saw it coming, but no, wrong: they did. Paleoclimatologists looked at the...
It makes us a thread in a tapestry that has unrolled for centuries before us, and will unroll for centuries after us. We're midway through the loom, that's the present, and what we do casts the thread...
Here, listen to this; a poem by a Greek who lived in Alexandria, one Cavafy: You said, ‘I shall go to another land to another sea Another city will be found better than this. My every effort is a writ...
Each terrarium functions as an island park for the animals inside it. Ascensions cause hybridization and ultimately new species. The more traditional biomes conserve species that on Earth are radicall...
And yet here they were. He looked at Aurora’s assistants, hovering over the bank of machines against the wall. He hoped the treatment would work, that it would not kill or derange him. They slipped th...
All the great moments of history have taken place inside people’s heads.
Against our lives we would like to rebel, But we worry that then it would all go to hell. Aram
A major part of sustainability is social justice, here and everywhere. Think of it this way: justice is a technology. It’s like a software program that we use to cope with the world and get along with...
That is what capitalism is—a version of feudalism in which capital replaces land, and business leaders replace kings. But the hierarchy remains. And so we still hand over our lives’ labor, under dures...