Archive for Month: July 2022

Stephan's Quintet

Supremacy

“It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.” Ingid Newkirk Let’s start with a little perspective. There are about 400 billion Milky Way stars and as many as 10 trillion planets orbiting them. On our little planet, there are 8 billion people. Given those facts, how did we come to the conclusion that our planet reigns supreme and that any one of Read More

Untitled, by Evie S.

Congruence and Coherence

“This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make.”  —Christopher Alexander “There is an immense, painful longing for a Read More