February 2015

How my 2-year-old son taught me to focus

I didn’t expect that having a toddler would improve my focus. After all, aren’t they supposed to be chaos embodied, a frenzy of activity, spraying attention in all directions? And certainly they take time and energy to raise, teach, and protect. Yet toddlers also haven’t yet learned the [cognitive mistake](http://www.npr.org/2013/05/10/182861382/the-myth-of-multitasking) of trying to juggle more…more

February 27, 2015 - Mindfulness, Personal, Psychology

Fossil fuels, our starter engine

> The fossil fuel deposits of our Spaceship Earth correspond to our automobile’s storage battery which must be conserved to turn over our main engine’s self-starter. Thereafter, our “main engine,” the life regenerating processes, must operate exclusively on our vast daily energy income from the powers of wind, tide, water, and the direct Sun radiation…more

February 1, 2015 - Nature, Sustainability, Technology, World