Yesterday, I happened to come across some old — and I mean extremely old—video footage of Earth, courtesy of my alien friends. It showed a small tribe of ancient humans hunting and gathering in a lush green forest.
And it made me think about the past. In the millennia since…
I don’t get it.
In my childhood years, when someone worked really hard on an art project, or stayed up all night doing homework, they were usually praised. Even if all you ended up with was a tangled mess of paper clippings or an F, we said you did okay.
…
What happened in your dreams last night?
If you’re anything like I was up until last month, you probably found yourself strapped into a climbing harness, scaling Everest as a tornado thundered up the icy slopes. And it’s all good, believe me.
Researchers theorize that dreams help us store memories…
Have you ever read something in a book, or heard a scientific principle explained to you, and said Man, I could never have thought of that!
Today, that was me.
I was studying a bit of biology, and happened on an explanation of phototropism — plants growing towards a light…
Reality is the most boring thing there is.
Fortunately, nature has given humanity a special ability to cope with the absence of exciting stimuli. It’s a function as necessary and as rejuvenating as eating and breathing, but one that most people do not know how to do.
This is the…
Traditionally, the best of human/extraterrestrial interactions have been purely platonic, governed by mutual self-interest. The worst usually end in mass extinction and planetary destruction.
But today I’d like to discuss the possibility of a true interspecies relationship. Why is it possible, and what are the obstacles?
Humans and aliens could…
Last night, something terrible happened.
As I lay on my bed, I tried to amuse myself by recollecting how I spent my day, the 22nd of October, 2021.
And I couldn’t.
I couldn’t even remember what I ate for breakfast.
I convinced myself that it was just plain old mental…
Over the centuries, humans have built a lot of cool, sometimes useful stuff. But my aliens and I wanted to answer a question: just how big (or small) can we go?
Last night, I killed a mosquito.
It may sound commonplace—not at all a noteworthy event—but its a big deal…
Humans have made terrific advances in science and technology, especially over the last century. But we have no plan for the long term, and that spells disaster.
I finally asked my alien friends, the Florg, how they came to Earth. Not the physics of it—they’ll never explain that to me—but…
My aliens and I were discussing the future of our species, and the outlook was pretty grim. They say we’re hitting the proverbial ceiling, and we need to act fast.
Every morning, I wake up and brew a coffee. In that half-awake state, it’s easy to think that all is…
