To believe that human activity is the single greatest threat to life on earth tends to take on a view of absolute power, something humans have engaged in for millennia and in doing so have wrongly thought themselves omniscient. If we were actually able to control and understand a thing so much greater than ourselves I might be tempted to accept Scott Lewis’ assertion that present day extinction is linked to human activity and we are therefore solely responsible for the loss of so many of the…
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Added by William Joseph George-Stilianess on November 17, 2010 at 8:24pm —
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Hello fellow creative minds,
I need to take a break from here for a short bit due to the massive tearing of the major muscles in my left shoulder. I plan on toying with speech recognition software to write while i am unable. Wish me speedy recovery.
Will
Added by William Joseph George-Stilianess on November 2, 2010 at 8:58pm —
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The little numbers on the line,
Behave so well for me.
As they grow bigger they travel left,
and smaller-right you see.
But if you want to know the scale,
make all the powers equal.
Then when they are drawn out on a line,
their distance will be sensible.
Added by William Joseph George-Stilianess on October 23, 2010 at 7:51am —
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My ears begin to pop as the pressure changed during our descent into the atmosphere directly over the green mountains. Having grown up in areas predominantly near a city I was overwhelmed with the amount of green
that I saw beneath me. I can recall turning to my new wife and saying, where
are we going to land, there's nothing but trees down there? We'd made a slight
left banking out over Lake Champlain and began our downwind run into…
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Added by William Joseph George-Stilianess on October 20, 2010 at 9:32am —
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