How to save the world

A pastiche of examples of art by women that I really admire, and some thoughts about why I now find most art by women to be more interesting than most art produced by men.

This is #58 in a series of month-end reflections on the state of the world...

This is the fifth of a series of articles — opinionated, fanciful writings, speculations — about The World After Collapse. It draws on what I’ve learned about pre-civilization humans and other large-brained creatures, and speculates on how, after civilizatio...

I have always been a board game fan. But unlike most, I prefer games that offer interesting, unusual, and clever features, qualities, designs, and what Board Game Geek calls ‘mechanics’. I avoid games that are highly competitive or encourage ganging up on other players, bluffing, or cutthroat strategies.

Back in 1969 when I was a teenager, I discovered a new Br...

[I don’t often write what might be called ‘diary entries’, but for some reason I felt compelled to write this one. I don’t keep a diary, so I had to post it here. Caveat Lector]

I seem to be losing the motivation to do things — to do most anything, really. I’m not depressed or unhappy about this, or anything, just uninterested in doing things ...

“Slowly and then all at once”. That’s John Green’s paraphrasing of Ernest Hemingway’s quote in The Sun Also Rises about how change happens (though John wrote it specifically about how we fall in love). Ernest was referring to how you go bankrupt.

But it applies to many if not most types of change, large-scale and small, the way they creep up on us unti...