Tag: climate

• In praise of an empty brain

  How do I love thee, Age? Let me count the ways… Well, actually I’m not actually going to, because of late, I’ve fallen out with it. Perhaps it’s just my memory that’s falling, though: I was about to parody Shakespeare -it’s what I knew I knew, and yet I didn’t (it was Elizabeth Barrett Browning.…

  gozzter

  May 26, 2021

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  awe, beginner’s mind, Christian Jarrett, climate, Enlightenment, expertise, experts, French revolution, history, hubris, intellectual humility, knowledge, peak knowledge, Psyche.co, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Shoshin, St. Augustine, the Little Ice Age, Zen

• Fire burn, and cauldron bubble

  I love it when I hear a new word, wrestle with a new concept. Pyrocene -don’t you adore it? Even just sounding it out quietly in your head, it’s  hard to miss the excitement, or the imagery. It takes its shape, as with all great epochs, by combining two Greek words, pur (or pyro), meaning…

  gozzter

  November 4, 2020

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  Anthropocene, Arizona State University, biotic matrix, climate, Fantasia, fire, Fire Age, fire-animal, Goethe, Holocene, hominids, Paul Ducas, Pleistocene, Pyrocene, Stephen J Pyne, the Sorcerer’s Apprentice