SENSibility 2: Don’t Forget the Garbage
We hear a lot about climate change these days. It is The Big Dark Thought of our time, just as nuclear Armageddon was The Big Dark…
Read articleAn Annotated Terry Entry About the Oscars
Nowhere are the acts of happy exuberance and style better represented than in our own entertainment industry, where arguably the trademark event for this sensory delight…
Read articleSENSibility 1: The Sensible Blog
Sensibility (n.) 1. the capacity for physical sensation 2. [often plural] delicate, sensitive awareness or feelings Sensible (adj.) 1. that can cause physical sensation 2. easily…
Read articleEntering the blogosphere with trepidation…
At the risk of offending the legions of loyal facebookers and hardcore promoters of displaying the festering contents of one’s brain for all the virtual world…
Read articleALL CHANGE IS NOT EVOLUTIONARY
What is evolution? Who was Darwin? What do the words Darwinism, natural selection, or survival of the fittest really mean? These words and phrases have been…
Read articleDISCOVERING ETHNOCENTRISM
It’s hot. I’m dirty. I stink. Despite my low level of hygiene, I feel good. I’ve just successfully crossed the Cambodian boarder into Vietnam. I’ve been…
Read articleSTREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
so, this all started with my attending the terry sponsored presentation by wade davis which led me to the terry website and there i saw the…
Read articleIPCC FAQ PART DEUX (BURCH MIX): OR HOW TO CAPTURE THE CLIMATE CRAZE.
(Click here for the IPCC FAQ Part I) Even those living under the oft-referenced proverbial rock would find it difficult these days to avoid the tempest…
Read articleMETAPHYSICS
It was a timeless moment of Epiphany, of incredible clarity. I had just finished swimming 1500 metres and was floating in the water when suddenly, it…
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A note of encouragement
By Sarah Burch,
Dear self, I see you’ve stalled in your search for both inspiration and the ever-elusive catharsis that continually evades capture by those on the circuitous path to an ‘original intellectual…
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