How to save the world

from the brilliant Scottish philosopher-cartoonist Tom Gauld in New Scientist

I am haunted by this cartoon. Not only because Tom has captured so perfectly our propensit...

council of clan mothers in an imagined post-civilization culture; diorama from Afterculture (redrawn by AI to make the image crisper and more legible — right click to open full size in a new window)

Lyle Fass has recently written a series of articles ...

image by Layers on Pixabay

Ever had one of those awkward moments when you’re talking with (or messaging with) someone who is struggling with an acute or chronic crisis (a terminal illness, recent loss of a loved one, a severe bou...

image by AI; my own prompt

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about how reluctant we humans are to accept truths that clash with our worldview — our beliefs about the world.

This is, of course, understandable. Our worldview is a complicated, interwoven set of judgements, feelings, and other results of sense-making that we have amassed over a lifetime. It’s the...

The image on the History and Context card in the Group Works deck. Image by Nomad Tales on flickr, CC-BY-SA 2.0 (this artist is no longer on flickr).

Before our average attention spans were reduced to something less than a minute, we were required, if we expected to ...