After a year offline, the blog is back at integrationism.blog—with the Galápagos diary, the gratitude practice, book reviews, and a series on the idea behind On the Destiny of Species. … More The blog is back
Watching the fish at the Laguna de las Ninfas: why the tension between risk-taking and caution runs all the way down our evolutionary heritage—and why humans are, in Bronowski’s phrase, the social solitary. … More Gratitude Practice: The Social Solitary
Messages across continents in an instant, home overnight by air—and what the same journeys cost Darwin, just two lifetimes ago. … More Gratitude Practice: Modern Communication and Transportation Networks
On risk and stability, calculated bets, and the balance between playing it safe and never growing. … More Gratitude Practice: Nothing Ventured…
I am grateful for finitude. Infinity is an abstraction that refers to a potentiality, a mathematical process that however high we count we can always add one more, or in reality that no matter what combinations of matter now exist they can always form new arrangements. But whatever actually exists now is finite, with a … More Gratitude Practice: Finitude
Human beings are wired to be fearful. Let’s talk about the evidence for optimism. We’ve been programmed by millions of years of evolution to pay more attention to potential and perceived threats than to actual, real benefits. As a result, many people live with and suffer from unnecessary fear and anxiety. As the evolutionary science … More Apocaholics Anonymous
