Do you have mixed feelings about the efficacy or timing of this month’s celebrated venture into space? You too might be unconsciously channeling the essence of mindfulness: “Wherever you go, there you are.” In other words, We can run but…
To recap, here is my top 10 list of emergent, essential to existential things I care about, and hope in some small way — through 350-plus Humble Sky essays published every Tuesday morning for the past six years — to…
Vents, PPE, test kits, face masks, commonsense, there are so many things we need to deal effectively with Covid-19. There is another apparatus (invention?) that would contribute mightily to our safety and well-being now and, arguably, beyond the pandemic. Each…
When time and space and comprehension slow us down, our natural inclination is to take shortcuts to streamline things. Not only with the limitations of everyday life, but with existential matters too. In fact, for centuries we’ve created and relied…
[ARCHIVE UPDATE — 1-23-18] This story could go on forever, but here’s the abbreviated version. A young woman walks into a trendy downtown bistro and grabs a stool at the bar. She possesses an almost unnatural beauty, at once alluring…
Humble Sky, the title and theme of this blog, observes that humankind need only look skyward to appreciate the obvious limit of our comprehension; and further, that this universal reality check should encourage us to be more curious and more…
What follows is a content outline for an idea I have for a children’s book. It still needs work and will almost certainly go through many more iterations before I either consider it done, or relegate it to my nebulous…
This is epic, breaking news. A matter of fact. Scientists from across the globe on April 10 pin-pointed and photographed the proverbial black hole (not the one, however, that ate your baseball card collection, homework, retainer, socks, etc.) where things…
“And yet the more we know about the universe, the more we come to see how little we know,” writes Timothy Ferris in his book Coming of Age in the Milky Way. It is a humbling perspective, one that Ferris…
There’s big news and bad news about the cosmos. In The New York Times article “Cosmic Confusion” on February 26, science writer Dennis Overbye reveals how astronomers are intrigued by a new finding that suggests “The universe seems to be…
