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One reason we lack these deeper explanations is the continuing appeal of a narrative of inevitability—a sparsely populated continent, occupied by a few doomed savages, was (of course) eventually settled by industrious, aggressive, and
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“Patience is essential on the spiritual path, but delay is not. Patience invites the timeless back in, and practicing becomes a waking game, not a waiting game, because patience is the state of full wakefulness. (Rodney Smith)”
― The Best Buddhist Writing 2011
― The Best Buddhist Writing 2011
“Protein is more stable than DNA over time, and so this new technology offers a fresh way to study fossils.”
― Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
― Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
“But just across the U.S. border, up in the tar sands of Alberta, there is another equally horrific image. A gaping pit, an abyss on its way to becoming the size of Florida, exists where Imperial Oil -- the largest company in the world -- is using the wild Athabasca River to pressure-wash underground sand formations that they gouge up like honeycombs, using huge amounts of energy and clean fresh water to steam the oil from those sands. Native people in the area are dying from drastically abnormal incidences of rare cancers, and Imperial Oil is seeking to transport more giant mining equipment -- on trucks over two hundred feet long and three stories high-- up the Snake River to Lewiston, Idaho, along the same route where the Nez Perce tribe rescued Lewis and Clark and directed them to the Pacific, shortly before the U.S. betrayed the Nez Perce and chased them toward Canada before killing them. (Rick Bass)”
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“By almost any definition, Homo naledi is not human. But if the present archaeological record reflects the complexity of Homo sapiens accurately, it means that naledi was significantly more complex than sapiens at the time.”
― Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
― Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
“Can you imagine how many more people today would be happier, more stable, better contributors to the world, if only their fathers had been actively present in their childhood?”
― Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
― Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
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