Cousins
I love it that I, distant descendant of a shrew, can hold, gently between my hands, a chicken, distant descendant of a dinosaur.
science
Hope fades
All over the Universe, the small number of sentient species, in a handful of galaxies, have given up hope for the survival of the almost sentient species, Homo sapiens, which currently lives on a small planet, near a small star, on the outer reaches of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Destroyer of Worlds
Does Bolsonaro not know that whatever remnant of the human race remains next century will curse his name in the same way that Hitler, Attilla, Genghis, Stalin, Pol Pot and Trump were cursed, or does he not care?
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Definitions by example
“Religious cult” is a tautology; “Sustainable development” is an oxymoron.
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The old schoolyard
If we knew why, and how, a school classroom, full of students, all from the same town, all exposed to the same experiences, the same information, the same culture and society, can turn out, fifty years on, to be Right and Left, Believer and Atheist, nice and not so nice, we could understand why the
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Easy solutions
Homo sapiens will reject any solution to over- population and excess consumption that doesn’t involve killing the other species we share this small planet with, or killing the other humans we share this small planet with.
What’s in a context?
It is passing strange, is it not, that celebrity comments criticised in the media were always taken out of context, while those praised were always perfectly in context.
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Sapience
Religion is the proof you can get human beings to believe any nonsense; Science is the proof that you can’t
Whale Killers
Just when you think the Japanese are becoming more civilised the harpoons come out of storage and the seas boil with blood again
Card Sharp
I think I played the cards I was dealt as well as I could, but at times it was tempting to go for misere