While you’re waiting for the bus

Weekly-ish list of stuff interesting enough I think it’s worth sharing.

 Awaiting a New Darwin After so many years thinking about and studying evolution, I’d forgotten how bizarre and unintuitive it can seem to even well educated, intelligent people. Also, I love the illustration that accompanies this article:

Erin Pauwels Collection/Art Archive/Art Resource

Still trying to read “Sex at Dawn” without actually killing myself
Sex at Dawn was a huge disappointment.

Do Animals in Chernobyl’s Fallout Zone Glow?
“radiation is less harmful to wildlife populations than we are.”

Justice is not Law, Law is Not Justice
As Benito Juarez put it “For my friends, grace and justice; for my enemies, the law.”

Brooding Cityscapes Painted with Oils by Jeremy Mann

Brooding Cityscapes Painted with Oils by Jeremy Mann urban painting

In New Castle, Pa., trying to break free of poverty
Quicksand

The Soul of Student Debt
My student loans scare me sometimes.

The world is running out of soil
Both droughts and heavy precip make this worse. Both are predicted under climate change.