Seeing Is (Not Necessarily) Believing

An essay by Joshua T. Calkins-Treworgy Author of “The Big Tour” A commonplace near-death experience that seems to share almost universal ties to people who have been on the brink of death, or by those who have been clinically dead and revived, goes pretty much as...

Which Does Nature Choose: Lock-Down Or Luxury?

Opposites are joined at the hip.  In our last episode, we watched nature use a single strategy that alternates between two opposites, thrift and extravagance.  We saw this thrift versus extravagance strategy at work in the tiny, bug-like creatures called tardigrades...

How Putin Will Go Nuclear

We are in a war with one man, Vladimir Putin.  And Vladimir Putin is nuclear. Putin has made two kinds of nuclear threats.  He has threatened to use nuclear warheads.  And he has implicitly threatened us with deliberate disasters at the nuclear reactors he has...

What Is An Omnologist To Me?

A primer from Howard Bloom, who coined the term, Omnology “can help make you the person you really want to be instead of the person squashed into existence by a bunch of disciplinary boundaries. Omnology is a science, but one dedicated to the biggest picture...

Sextasies – Is Sex the Trigger or the Gun?

At the heart of sex are genes.  It’s been over 70 years since we first detected genes, and we still know less than we think about how they work. We don’t know, for example, how a string manufactures a box. We don’t know how a thread-like genome builds the walls and...