The Rubber Tree People: Mayan or Myth

REVIEW: Aztecs, by Inga Clendinnen

Aztecs: An Interpretation, Inga Clendinnen (Cambridge University Press, 1991).

If Sapiens were a blog post

A cut-down summary of Sapiens covering the major points.

Ursula K. Le Guin — The Dispossessed

A bleak moon settled by utopian anarchists, Anarres has long been isolated from other worlds, including its mother planet, Urras—a civilization of warring nations, great poverty, and immense wealth. Now Shevek, a brilliant physicist, is determined to reunite the two planets, which have been divided by centuries of distrust. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have kept them apart.

Forms Upon the Frontier: Folk Life and Folk Arts in the United States (Monograph Series, Vol. XVI, No. 2, April 1969)

Good condition. (folklore, frontier life) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Book Review of Making All the World America

Steven T. Newcomb reviews Timothy Bowers Vasko’s Making All the World America: Native Information and the Doctrine of Discovery (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2026).

Ted’s Thoughts

Ted Han’s thoughts about journalism, technology, civilization, art and a bunch of other things.

Protect our Living Legends - Woodland Trust

Many of our oldest and most special trees are not legally protected. Urge Government to change the law and prevent further tragedy.

Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard

The upcoming book from Suzanne Simard, the world’s leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another.

Crown shyness: are trees social distancing too? | Natural History Museum

If you look up in some forests, you might notice conspicuous gaps between the trees' branches. © Pongpawan Sethanant/ Shutterstock

The Demon-Haunted World

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark is a 1995 book by the astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan. In it, Sagan aims to explain the scientific method to laypeople and to encourage people to learn critical and skeptical thinking. He explains methods to help distinguish between ideas that are considered valid science and those that can be considered pseudoscience. Sagan states that when new ideas are offered for consideration, they should be tested by means of skeptical thinking and should stand up to rigorous questioning.

Running On Emptiness

John Zerzan Running On Emptiness The Pathology of Civilization 2002

Prometheus

In Greek mythology, Prometheus is a Titan responsible for creating or aiding humanity in its earliest days. He defied the Olympian gods by taking fire from them and giving it to humanity in the form of technology, knowledge and, more generally, civilization.

All Possible Views About Humanity's Future Are Wild

If humans will eventually spread out across the galaxy, then we are among the earliest living beings, with remarkable opportunities to shape the future

Pacific kelp forests are far older than we thought - Berkeley News

The unique underwater kelp forests that line the Pacific Coast support a varied ecosystem that was thought to have evolved along with the kelp over the past 14 million years. But a new study shows that kelp flourished off the Northwest Coast more than 32 million years ago, long before the appearance of modern groups […]