I’ve known of some of Richard Dawkins writings for decades, and have read a few. Until recently, I knew nothing about the man, his life. I had developed a negative stereotype of Dawkins as a reductionist from his stance reflected in the title of his book, The Selfish Gene, which I did read long ago…

The term “adaptation” is in frequent use by those concerned about the future of humankind and Gaia. I find the implications of the term “adaptation” limiting to what humankind can do. Humans can be assumed to have creative agency. Through “adaptation”, this creative agency is to be applied to the changing roles of humans and…

Solutionatiques for Problematiques whatever we do a more competent, knowledgeable, compassionate, organized humankind would be a positive. why then, is improving humankind not a primary intent of activists; but treated as a consequence that will follow actions from our  current levels/distribution of competencies?

THE NEW YORKER  MAY 2, I2016 SAME BUT DIFFERENT : How epigenetics can blur the line between nature and nurture  by   Siddhartha Mukherjee Author of new book: The Gene: An Intimate History Recommended by a dear friend, Jamie Lantz,  I read The New Yorker article with great interest. It was a creative essay that wove…

Reading the comments in this post/thread depressed me more than anything I have read in months. I am forced to get this out of my head, NOW [ 4/29/2016 ], as I am about to write about a chapter of a book read a few days ago – that was the MOST encouraging thing I…