Politics and its Discontents

For those whose sense of weather peril is somewhat muted, the following picture of a London park, the top part showing it in May, and the bo...

The months-long drought where I live appears finally to be at end. However, any relief I feel is tempered by the knowledge that the weather ...

I decided to take a break from the political landscape today to look at our physical one. Regrettably, although the title of this post comes...

When we think of climate change, the first things that may come to mind are our increasingly violent storms and melting Arctic ice. Another...

Humans, and other primates , it appears, have an innate sense of fairness. We expect, for example, in times requiring sacrifice, that no m...

This note from the Mound of Sound accompanied the post that follows: Some of the course material I’ve been going through lately got me thi...

In response to my last post , which dealt with climate change and the persistent drought in California, The Mound of Sound, a.k.a. The Dis...

Ah yes, the joys of the marketplace .