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Just a shoe
What keeps you awake at night?
Climate change is a big, big problem made worse by population pressure on scarce resources and strong, worldwide interdependence. This recent article in the Guardian does a good job of connecting problems in one part of the world to those elsewhere and outlining the very large scope and scale of the disaster we’re facing. There […]
Dinosaur Safari
I’m not much of a gamer, but when I was a kid, I played a lot of computer games. I really liked text adventure games, but was blown away in 3rd grade when I discovered Dinosaur Safari. The goal of Dinosaur Safari is to find and photograph as many dinosaurs as possible. You have to […]
Making space for God
From Karen Armstrong’s A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam: In the New Testament, the Pharisees are depicted as whited sepulchres and blatant hypocrites. This is due to the distortions of first-century polemic. The Pharisees were passionately spiritual Jews. They believed that the whole of Israel was called to be a holy nation […]
What I’ve Noticed
More evidence that our drug policies are just wrong. Evolving to eat meat helped humans live longer. American evangelical influence is likely to cause Ugandan gays to be executed. How did health care reform turn into a subsidy for health insurance companies? It makes me livid when good ideas get shut down because politicians are more […]
Christmas Tree
For the first time since I left home, I have a Christmas tree. Euphorbia aphylla isn’t exactly a fir, but mine is perfect for hanging ornaments. Plus, it’s in the same genus as poinsettia, which is definitely a Christmasy plant.