Archive for October, 2009
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Cute Skirt
Can we choose who we will become before we know who we are?
E.O. Wilson in Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge: Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us. There is no genetic destiny outside our free will, no lodestar provided by which we can set course. Evolution, including genetic progress in human nature and human capacity, will […]
Just a shoe
Climate Change
Today is Blog Action Day and the hope this year is to get people blogging about, talking about, and discussing climate change. I talk a lot about climate change on here, but I approach it as a scientist for the most part. I grew up with people who flat out denied that climate change could […]
Why am I in such a good mood?
I think it might be because I made coconut chocolate chip cookie dough (with bonus oatmeal since I didn’t have enough coconut or chocolate chips) on Sunday, and following Joy’s advice, filled my freezer with frozen cookie dough balls. This means that for the next several weeks I can have just-baked cookies whenever I want.
It’s the End of the World As We Know It
We’ve waited so long to do anything about climate change, that sea level rise of more than 6 feet (and half of that predicted in this century) is pretty much unstoppable now. Things are going to go pretty badly for most countries, but island nations will be faced with (proportionately) far more land loss (forcing […]