Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic.

So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months.

Genius is the summed production of the many with the names of the few attached for easy recall.

I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.

The beginning of wisdom, as the Chinese say, is calling things by their right names.