Buddhism begins in personal experience. Observation of one’s surroundings and one’s reactions, and one’s thoughts.
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...
Also it isn’t clear yet whether it was an act of God or an act of war.
All the great moments of history have taken place inside people’s heads.
Aldrin cycle
Against our lives we would like to rebel, But we worry that then it would all go to hell. Aram
Language is nothing but a huge set of false analogies
It's the love of right lures men to wrong.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...