npr • on being :: Joanna Macy

ancestors' wisdom ~ show up and love this world ~ solidarity

Bill Maher :: RealTime :: Bill McKibben

global climate change ~ scientists figured it out ~ that's why we have them

touch • s1e10 • tesselations

symmetry is the ~ language of the universe ~ geometrical
yet some can speak it ~ we see the precise patterns ~ the tessellations
geometric shapes ~ rotated and reflected ~ follow the logic
same grand mosaic ~ infinitely repeated ~ like bricks in a wall
whole is made stronger ~ by EACH brick • the wall holds by ~ collective support

npr • on being :: Gordon Hempton

endangered silence ~ it's not the absence of sound ~ it's absence of NOISE 
meet gordon hempton ~ acoustic ecologist ~ silence activist
tonal quality ~ i never REALLY listened ~ think-tank of the soul
poetics of space ~ professional listener ~ last quiet place
don't anticipate ~ there's no purpose but great joy ~ silence feeds our soul 
 just take it ALL in ~ who we are is what we hear ~ one square inch dot org

touch • s1e9 • music of the spheres

adding harmony ~ music elevates spirit ~ be all right with that

touch • s1e9 • music of the spheres

music of the spheres ~ immense as the universe ~ quiet as a stone

touch • s1e8 • zone of exclusion

when destined to touch ~ blocked - the universe always ~ finds another way

touch • s1e7 • noosprere rising

in these brief moments ~ maybe it's coincidence ~ answer to our prayers

touch • s1e7 • noosphere rising

collective request ~ is served up in unison ~ fear relieved. life spared

touch • s1e10 • noosphere rising

numbers are constant ~ that is, until they are not ~ great equalizer

npr • on being :: Christian Wiman

imagination ~ keeps opening me up to ~ eccentric heavens

touch • s1e5 • entanglement

each of them unique ~ each of them a link in the ~ greater human chain

touch • s1e4 • kite strings

'til you say something ~ of your own, you're no artist ~ you're just a parrot

touch • s1e3

invisible knight ~ served the silent king and helped ~ those who never knew

touch • s1e3

he sees what you see ~ he wants you to stop the pain ~ good deeds in secret

400 years of improvements

telescopes became ~ detectors of the unknown ~ and unimagined

npr • on being :: Mario Livio

passion for science ~ our expanding universe ~ core sense of wonder

making stuff smaller • nova

structural color ~ infinite range of choices ~ nano-architects

npr • on being

buddhist scientist ~ that is what i could become! ~ monk philosopher

molecular level

protein folding game ~ three dimensional tetris ~ zoran popovic