Can we help ecosystems cope? — Recently the climate crisis has been occupying a bit of my attention. Most recently ocean acidification (OA) has risen to the forefront. In many cases, nature has mechanisms built-in for dealing with most of the issues we are currently seeing. …

Please, sit down with me. Gather round and form a circle. If there are too many people, form another circular row behind the first. Leave yourself some space to be comfortable. Get cozy. Yes. You are reading and this is just a gathering in our respective minds. …

Let us settle this debate once and for all — Since this administration unfurled the new official emblem for the Space Force. Many people, including actors from Star Trek, have raised issues with how similar it looks to the Starfleet Command logo. It turns out it’s no accident that this has happened, but not for the reasons you probably think…

An updated scientific and clinical overview — If you take any medication or alter you diet, you could still get infected and be a carrier, even if you have no symptoms. There is no approved treatment for COVID-19. Remember 19% percent of us will have severe to critical symptoms, so stay home if you are sick. …

You don’t want your throat or lung cells to get the SARS-CoV-2; spread love with your actions instead. — I’ve been laying low these last two weeks watching the pandemic unfold. I was getting updates from a friend in South Korea on the numbers a little bit faster than the news updates were putting them out. I was hoping it could be contained, and it started looking good for…

Can we mend our splintered reality? — I believe we have a moral responsibility to fix the problems introduced by people determined to manipulate people or take advantage of people’s ignorance. This has always been a problem, but with the rise of social media it has become worse. People actually live in bubbles (Newton C, 2016; Jackson…

The problem with Brazil doing any settler-colonizer style agriculture is they have just the smallest bit of suitable land. They have just the smallest bit of natural prairie at the south side of the country. It’s only in the State of Rio Grande do Sol. That same prairie bioregion extends…

Six years ago, I was walking around my new neighborhood in Portland, OR. It was only slightly north from the second Portland neighborhood I’d lived in. There was a park where many kids and families came to play. I walked past a few restaurants, a coffee shop/bakery, and small corner…

The long, silenced history of oppression — Concentration camps or internment camps are any mass imprisonment of people without charges, typically of citizens of an enemy or anyone suspected of terrorism. Often times, these camps are not called concentration camps or interment camps, as the intention at first may vary. …