Zoinks. Two of my photos, published in WIRED:

Got (enough) trees? University of Vermont research in the The Guardian today shows threat to #climate change efforts via #tree planting: not enough seedlings. Not even close to enough. theguardian.com/environment/20…

arxiv.org/abs/2401.05566 Zoinks

“People who thus set their lives against destruction have necessarily confronted in themselves the absurdity that they have recognized in their society.” — Wendell Berry

I interviewed zeynep tufekci about the morality of #AI, social media, #climate change, capitalism & nuclear weapons. What's the glue? She says: valuing the short-term interest of powerful people, rather than the long-term interest of people in general. Read more: uvm.edu/news/story/tal…

Are we all doomed? "Doom is a state of mind," Adam Sobel writes in nature. Made me think of Zadie Smith's 2014 The New York Review of Books essay: "I found my mind finally beginning to turn from the elegiac what have we done to the practical what can we do?" nature.com/articles/d4158…

The most important news story I've ever written.

Got complexity? I spoke with Laurent Hébert-Dufresne about the difference between complicated and #complex--and the launch of the new journal #npjComplexity. uvm.edu/news/story/hon…

This! How I'm feeling this morning about the Kamala Harris pick of Governor Tim Walz: youtube.com/watch?v=cKkrXQ…

In a new book, geologist Paul Bierman recounts the moment he found astonishing evidence that Greenland’s ice sheet had melted in the ancient past. nyti.ms/3At0gT0

Zoinks! Two of my photos published in the The New York Times today, part of an excellent interview with University of Vermont scientist Paul Bierman. nytimes.com/2024/08/21/sci…

We Need Greenland. But Not in the Way Trump Thinks. undark.org/2025/01/23/opi… Great think piece in Undark Magazine by University of Vermont scientist Paul Bierman

New podcast w/ Michael Levin & Pamela Lyon! Do our cells have cognition and memory which changes how we view medicine? We rethink cognition & discuss: - Cognition and creativity is not merely associated with the brain and nervous system - Implications of this view of

newspaper writing: the birthing center where metaphors go to die.

No Haudenosaunee, no Olympic lacrosse. Boycott Los Angeles Olympics if the Haudenosaunee Nationals Lacrosse are not allowed to compete. nytimes.com/2025/05/13/mag…

My latest story on fruit flies, #brains, and the nature of #thinking: uvm.edu/magazine/news/…