Consider two recent pieces in the New York Times: “How Animals See Themselves” by Ed Young, and “In a Parallel Universe, Another You” by Michio Kaku, both published on June 20th. Young reports that animals sense light, sounds, smells, etc. much differently than humans do. It helps them to identify food, mates, and other means […]
I recently read Serhii Plokhy’s Atoms & Ashes (Norton, 2022), a chronicle of six nuclear disasters over several decades in America, England, Japan, and Russia, three in the military and three in electric utilities. In all six cases, the consequences of the disaster were much worse than expected and governments did their best to cover […]
Pubs are “public places” where we convene for drinks, meals, and often sporting events. I always sit at the bar. At a table, I am left to conversations with my colleagues with whom I entered the establishment or, if by myself, catching up with email with far-flung colleagues. At the bar, it is likely that […]
Where are we headed as a country? We were once – at least we thought – the shiny exemplar of liberal democracy. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness were our themes. We understood that there would be conflicts in these pursuits, but we would work it out. Reasonable adversaries would discuss and debates paths […]
