How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.

I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.

The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.

The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.

Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant.

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