“From Out There On The Moon, Politics Look So Petty. You Want To Grab A Politician By The Scruff Of

Less than 3% of reporters and editors in the U.S. — and even fewer elsewhere in the world — have formal training in covering science, health, or climate. — Siri Carpenter, The Open Notebook

Image from https://stemcell.eco/

“Resistance and change begin in art.” - Ursula K Le Guin

Artwork by Fiona Staples in Saga.

Teenagers have been deformed by social media. There's a sense they fit, but not as agents, not as full human beings who are making a future for themselves. They fit as human fodder that has been sucked into a machine and molded to what the machine wants out of them, which is their attention. — Jonathan Haidt from Our Kids Are the Least Generation Flourishing We Know Of

Image by Bill Watterson

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jonathan-haidt.html

Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you. - Susan Sontag

"In the tradeoff between timeliness and timelessness, choose the latter." - Johnathan Harris

“The search for life beyond Earth is not so much a search anymore if everything we are, we live on, interact with and observe is alive. Rather, it becomes an exploration of life’s expression of diversity and complexity– not in the universe but by the universe.” - Nathalie Cabrol

Painting by Simon Stalenhag.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-quantum-of-life/

“Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.” - Joss Whedon

Photo by Dave Roth

”The universe is an intelligence test.” - Timothy Leary

"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light." — Joseph Pulitzer

Artwork by Steve Powers

Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now. - Steven Wright