It'll be even more fun when researchers demonstrate experimentally that plants engage in unconscious futures trading and bet-hedging within their mycorrhizal symbioses. There's already a model published that suggests the first.

Absolutely, especially if they are getting paid for it. It was a good article, and one would want the text to be pristine.

Ah, the joys of spell-checker: damns are not dams, nor are flood plains flood planes.

I have to agree. We deal with dystopias routinely. Apocalypse is something else.

A point and a quibble: humans aren't well adapted to the velocities of typical objects in space. We just don't react fast enough. A good example is the Russian meteorite earlier this year. It was big enough to cause an atomic-level explosion (fortunately, slow enough and over a wide enough area that it didn't level…

There's two huge problems with bicameralism.

I'd suggest re-enacting the decapitation of Medusa. I mean, we have Perseus looking at the reflection in a shield (e.g. a large convex mirror) to cut through the neck of Medusa using either a sword or a sickle (depending on the story) without directly looking at Medusa and getting totally stoned.