3.8 Billion Years
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Seasons and Heartbeats
Age: 68. These days the seasons are less like a perfume to me and more like a clock. When I was young, autumns were my favorite season—painfully romantic, full of the future, life-enhancing and lonely at the same time. The… Continue reading
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Near-Death Experiences: what they tell us about THIS life
Lots of buzz this week about “Heaven Is Real: A Doctor’s Experience with the Afterlife” by Dr. Eben Alexander, in Newsweek. The Harvard Medical School neurosurgeon changed his mind about the afterlife after getting a taste of it during a… Continue reading
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Katydids, Cicadas, Crickets, Grasshoppers
In last Sunday’s New York Times (September 23), in her wonderful article, “A Little Night Music,” Diane Ackerman contemplates the chorus of katydids, crickets, grasshoppers and cicadas whose evening serenade from backyards and fields in temperate zones this time of… Continue reading
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Living As Meaning
“What is The Meaning of Life”—people either ignore or embrace the question depending on how hard it grabs them by the shoulders and shakes them. My own answer is that being alive is, in itself, in ways we are rarely… Continue reading
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God loves you. Does evolution?
Evolution selected our ability to love. Can it also actually love us, as religious believers feel that God loves them? Let’s back up a bit. According to biologists, the roots of human love are found in the length of time… Continue reading
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Video: “Big Bang Big Boom”—A History of Life
“Big Bang Big Boom.” Here’s a history of all life in 9 minutes of wonderful stop-motion graffiti art on old buildings, empty lots, and industrial stuff, by Italian mural street artist Blu. We watch an animated universe since its beginning—angular bits multiplying… Continue reading
Lives on Earth 