Shifting Perspective 1: Humans and the Planet
December 2018 Over the past few months I've been doing a lot of reading in one of my favorite areas: paleontology. No, I'm not dying to get geared up for a field assignment, I let other people walk the talk -- e.g. Richard Fortey pelted by chill downpours in Scotland as he examines Precambrian schists. I feel enormously grateful that their discomfort yields interesting copy I can read sprawled on the bed in my jammies. [...]