Catalytic Narrative

  The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest by Ed Caesar My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is an amazingly thorough a...

Just as are many of us, I am aware of two courtroom dramas having apparently opposite outcomes for superficially similar situations. The mai...

Most of the cognitive elite now pounds its brains on what to do about climate change. Subsidiary to that are concerns about species and habi...

Now that I've enacted Social Security, can I play? Well, not exactly, but maybe I won't have to beg either. I'm surrounded by fo...

So humans are a microcosm. That means that humans are radically connected to everything else. I'm not the only one to comment that we ri...

I shall regard this post as preliminary, in a way. I still don't think I have it in me to write my thoughts in any coherent fashion, but...

Notices fly by, but they are nearly all unrecoverable by the time I realize that they'd caught my interest. The new iPhone OS provides m...