Arts and Minds
The overdeveloped left hemisphere of my brain tells me one thing. My emerging artistic side tells me another. But before we get to the core of the issue, a little personal history is warranted. During my final decade in the…
Killing the Natives: The Ecology of Systematic Extinction
by Sandy Krolick As Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega summarized, it seems the USA was “isolated” -- a regular persona non grata -- at the Summit of the Americas last week in Columbia. Nor were our military and Secret Service ‘dicks’…
Channeling Kurt Vonnegut
I presented at SUNY-Fredonia on 2 April 2012. The standing-room-only audience, in a room with 200 chairs, included about 30 students from a class on Kurt Vonnegut and similar number from a class on environmental chemistry. I was informed the…
Why homeschool?
by Jennifer Hartley A year ago, Guy invited me to write about my educational philosophy-in-progress and said he would post it on Nature Bats Last. I have been thinking about this invitation and dithering ever since (until now). The invitation…
The Uncertainty Principle
by John Rember And bending down beside the glowing bars Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars. —Yeats, “When You are Old” 1. When was…
Media alert and new video clips
I'll be interviewed by Michael C. Ruppert for The Lifeboat Hour Sunday, 15 April at 9:00 p.m. Eastern (6:00 p.m. on the Left Coast). Tune in here. My recent trip to the northeastern United States included 13 presentations. At least…
Okay, now what?
by John Stassek A BRIEF EXPLANATION Six years ago I stopped at a Barnes and Noble bookstore to do a little browsing and kill some time. That was one of the biggest mistakes I’ve ever made. I picked up a…