by orchaeus | Oct 14, 2020 | Status Update
“So when you’re looking at another scientist don’t ask: “just give me the facts”, because a good scientist who has a sophisticated view of this issue would not be able to tell you what are the clear facts — and how much the facts as...
by orchaeus | Oct 14, 2020 | Shared Link
An excerpt from a podcast I was listening to this morning (link below). I was especially happy to hear the last paragraph, which runs contrary to our ‘common sense’ ideals. Dr. Brown’s brief comment highlights something at once crucial and invisible:...
by orchaeus | Oct 13, 2020 | Status Update
Now, if I were a pissed-off alpha predator, and a human who had already trespassed against my cubs cleverly demonstrated the additional stupidity of »filming me while I pursued it … I’d interpret that as a message that the human wasn’t taking this...
by orchaeus | Oct 13, 2020 | Status Update
I think about polarities. There’s the idea, for example, of a crime, or even a terrible crime. I can imagine the opposite of a terrible crime. An uncrime. A gesture so profoundly beautiful and just, kind and creative… so fundamentally »restorative…...
by orchaeus | Oct 12, 2020 | Status Update
With the notable exception of my progenitor(s); many of my finest teachers were not only not human — they were ‘ordinary’ creatures such as snails, bees, dogs, cats… and mice.
