Archive for August 2018

Seawalls for oil refineries and other ironies of climate change adaptation

A friend of mine includes a saying with each of his emails that goes like this: "It shouldn’t be easier to imagine the end of civilizat...

In a piece I wrote in 2014 I opined, "If you want to corrupt a people, corrupt the language." I added, "Once it becomes impo...

Most people know the tale of the blind men and the elephant . Each describes a part of the elephant. The elephant is said to be like a pilla...

Professor and author Douglas Rushkoff recently wrote about a group of wealthy individuals who paid him to answer questions about how to m...