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Imagine for a moment that you live about 10,000 years ago. You probably live with a small tribe of fellow…
Up here, near the surface of Earth, where the sun shines, life depends on photosynthesis. I hope that everyone has,…
Several years ago (I say ‘several’ and that’s what we’re going stick with!), something relatively important happened in my life.…
I hope that, by now, everyone has heard of the tragedy in Washington. A geomorphologist wrote a report about the…
“You are all going to die.”
Yes, that’s Joss Whedon’s idea of an inspiring commencement address. He gave the 2013 address at Wesleyan University recently (transcript).
Aside from the snark, Joss does have a point. And his address was a really powerful one. I hope that the graduates remember it. I have little hope for that. I don’t remember my college graduation speech, but then it wasn’t Joss Whedon giving it either.
Here’s the thing, people might want to listen to him. He has done two impossible things in his life. He made a long running TV series about a little, blond girl who beats the evil instead of dying first, screaming all the while. Then he turned a failed TV series into a major movie. He’s done the impossible.
Today taught me a very valuable lesson. Some of you may be aware that I have been building a home.…
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. That statement by Charles Dickens (A Tale of…
I really do not understand this. The United States, in 2010, finally made it into the top five on the…
In case you haven’t heard, Curiosity is reporting the discovery of carbon compounds on Mars. NASA still isn’t sure if…