It’s just a few minutes, geologically speaking. But it was forty centuries ago in our human past that people in some rocky canyons in Texas made some of the most remarkable rock art in North America. At twenty years a reproductive cycle, that’s only two hundred generations, which isn’t a lot. Two hundred fruitfly generations, […]
Rachel Maddow is one of the few voices of sanity to exist anywhere in our mainstream media system. Watch and see how she pivots from trick basketball shots to the reality of climate change, while critiquing the systemic ADD of our politics. It’s not that hard; it just takes a readiness to see things in […]
Climate change is going to transform everything we know. There are plenty of things we modern humans think of as “traditional” which are, from a deep-time perspective, just the merest blip of fashion. While coffee consumption is usually thought to have begun in Ethiopia less than a thousand years ago, tea is a little older: […]