by Howard Bloom | Dec 25, 2021 | The Case of the Sexual Cosmos
The Gathering Storm: The Forces Roiling the World of Anne Boleyn What was the role of sex in the romance of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIIIth? Did their courtship do what Pierre Louis de Maupertuis decrees—finding the shortest distance between two points? Or did it do...
by Howard Bloom | Nov 19, 2021 | The Case of the Sexual Cosmos
Harnessing Hurricanes of Form The Peacock’s Tail and Anne Boleyn Sex is not the shortest line between two points. In fact, it’s the longest line this cosmos has ever conceived. And the most twisted. Yet it pulls together the most astonishing things. Things of...
by Howard Bloom | Nov 10, 2021 | The Case of the Sexual Cosmos
Nature Loves Those Who Oppose Her Most Why sex? Let’s do a quick review. Sex is not about reproduction. It’s not about creating identical copies of yourself. It’s about mixing and matching. It’s about playing the odds. It’s about innovation. It’s about creating...
by Howard Bloom | Oct 30, 2021 | The Case of the Sexual Cosmos
Is Sex Seven Dimensional Chess? 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? ...
by Howard Bloom | Oct 23, 2021 | The Case of the Sexual Cosmos
Seduction Scalpels Reality 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...
by Howard Bloom | Oct 16, 2021 | The Case of the Sexual Cosmos
Pay Them With Perfume 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...