In recent days and weeks, I’ve revisited “The Star Thrower” story. This story from Loren Eiseley’s 1969 book The Unexpected Universe was the subject of one of our earliest posts a decade ago. Its value remains true and unquestionable: If you base your choices on what is right, then what you do will make a …
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More on Anthropause
Six months ago, I learned a new word, anthropause, and wrote about it in a December post. Anthropause means “a considerable global slowing of modern human activities, notably travel.” This is what happened as the world locked down to control the spread of COVID-19: human activity slowed. Things are returning to ‘normal.’ As an example, last …