A Meaningful Life, A Better World

After being relatively steady for years, the number of subscribers to this blog has almost tripled in ~the past month.  WTF?  Bots?  Whateve...

Speaking of harmful fantasies, from Scott Grout : China commissioned 30 gigawatts of new coal power in the first half of 2026. That is the h...

There has never been a better time to be a human . Compared to the 110+ billion humans who lived before you were born, the average human tod...

Legal marriage, February 1993. No ownership, although she is wearing my late great uncle's coat. 😉 This was prompted by Gloria Steinem...

Scans of photos (click for larger) from the 1980s, taken in Galveston, TX (a city basically wiped off the map by a hurricane in 1900 ; see a...

" We look down on you ." Follow-up to The Human Fetish : Early in his recent anti-AI podcast, Derek Thompson (whom I respect) rep...

"Save the Earth! It's the only one with tacos." This Hank Green podcast with Dr. Katie Mack picks up on my thoughts  about li...

Chickens who roamed our neighborhood in exurban Pennsylvania.  Passed along by a friend: Our Animal Product Impact Scales ... estimates two...

Follow-up to yesterday , by Noah Smith: How not to be fooled by viral charts How not to be fooled by viral charts, Part 2 Please share those...

tl;dr: When browsing online, don’t judge based on if you agree or if it sounds “true.” Ask how much the author (influencer) would benefit f...

Display of cranes, Peace Park, Hiroshima Funny 'cuz it's not funny: The Expanding Circle? (SMBC) More in-the-weeds philosophy:  Tot...

Tucson sunrise, August 23. From Carl V Phillips, PhD, commenting here on an anti-backyard-egg post: I really have to wonder who this is dir...

Few things lead to more people unsubscribing than pointing out that anti-meat / pro-veg  advocacy generally hurts animals .  If you'd li...

Turns out very little has changed in the Vegan world in the last ~40 years, from the 'zine No Compromise! to today:  This is the one of...

Operators are standing by. Repetitive Preface (skip) Until the day he died, Paul Ehrlich was convinced he was right . He wasn’t, of course....