Your Therapist Could Use Some Help
And our choice of words reveals us.
Science & Nature
How to Meet the Girl with Kaleidoscope Eyes
Reverence, serenity, and compassion, courtesy of a mushroom? Well, what would be wrong with that? Humans are a broken species. Negative emotions wired into us for survival have run amok in times we call civilized, and now we hunt, or at least hurt, one another. It would be lovely to think we could all meditate our way to wholeness. But why not speed the process?
And Why Not Look for Mermaids?
Or how the father of taxonomy persuaded the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to organize a hunt for mermaids.
The St. Louisan Who Could Rule the World
Brilliant, he admits to an “almost delusional level of self-confidence.” Will we pay for his recklessness?
Update from the Shawnee National Forest
It is a redundancy to say heroism must be shown in inopportune times. The current administration recently put 59 million acres of national forestland at greater risk in an opening salvo of a commodity-mindset war against the environment.
AI’s Ethics Are Evolving…into Satanic Blood Rituals
Aw, you humans have been scared of tech forever, the AI says....
News from the Shawnee National Forest
It has taken a few more years, after the expiration of the order, for the logging to start up again, but the Forest Service has again marked 70 acres of trees to be cut in the steep hills of the Shawnee Forest.
Does “Earthing” Work?
You know how disconnected we have become when it takes a craze to remind us to go barefoot and feel the earth.
Grumpy Old…Men?
Curmudgeons, you see, have standards. Sherlock Holmes could not abide being fooled, and Statler and Waldorf suffered no foolish puppets.
Everything Addresses Us
“Tech is taking all the things you already disliked—triviality, noise, rudeness, interruption—and delivering them in a format you don’t have any control over.”