by Howard Bloom | Oct 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
Why did nature allow you, the gaudiest and most wasteful plants in history, you flowering plants, you angiosperms, to thrive? Why did she favor you despite your sins, your sins of materialism, consumerism, waste, and vain display? Because your sins were blessings in...
by Howard Bloom | Oct 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange In a hearing in September, a British court ruled against extraditing famed leaker Julian Assange to the US after a psychiatrist told the judge that if Assange were deported, he would commit suicide. On October 27th, lawyers...
by Howard Bloom | Oct 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
Over 100 million years ago, you flowering plants went through wild gyrations to reshape yourselves as insect attractors, insect manipulators, and insect payday providers. But you did more. You also reshaped the genes, bodies, and behaviors of insects. You remade the...
by Howard Bloom | Oct 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
In our last exciting episodes, trees had defied gravity, scraped the skies, and with 200,000 leaves per tree had hogged up all the sunlight. You a land plant only a few feet high, were frantically trying to work around the edges of that light monopoly. To do it, you...
by Howard Bloom | Oct 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
Three weeks ago, Antonio Guterres, secretary general of the United Nations, blasted billionaires for joyriding “to space while millions go hungry on Earth.” His spokesman reaffirmed that complaint October 13th after William Shatner’s flight on Blue Origin’s New...