I posted the essay below, verbatim, on 7 August 2008. I'm using the same title for today's essay, and adding a brief introduction and an embedded song. Also, I've linked to a new essay for Shift at the bottom of…

The National Geographic television show was better than I expected. It aired 1 November 2015. Ultimately Bill Nye returned to Stage 3, bargaining, after briefly visiting stages 4 and 5, depression and acceptance, respectively. The show can viewed, at least…

I've embedded below video from a presentation I delivered in the Royal Room in Seattle, Washington. Topic was abrupt climate change and the event transpired on 17 June 2015. Sorry for the delay in posting here: editing took longer than…

Way back on 27 October 2008, more than seven years ago, when I was respected by some and I was busily, self-importantly holding down a "respectable" job, I penned the essay posted below. I've kept the title, added a brief…

It's one of my favorite phrases: "Mistakes have been made." They are legion. I've made most of them myself. I continue along the same, error-ridden path. I suspect I'll make my final mistake immediately before I die. It might be…

On 4 September 2008, as the final academic year of my academic life was barely under way, I wrote an essay for this space bearing the same title as the current essay. It's pasted below, verbatim, after a few contemporary…

by Tim Buchanan CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of violence The converging crises that are descending on our planet are the direct responsibility of the powerful who preside over civilization today. The political and economic elite of yesteryear would not have known…