Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.

The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.

We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.

All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.

Hexapodia as the key insight...I haven't had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs?