Life, the Universe, and Everything

I don’t need to cut myself slack. All I have is slack. […]

42 Reasons Why

Maybe it’s because all the larger social groups shun us when we’re young, but we seem to reflex­ively build our own lit­tle worlds that keep us safe and, inci­den­tally, keep out those who’ve spurned us. […]

Grist

Mr. Jenk­ins hur­tled with all pos­si­ble speed toward a mostly non­de­script but increas­ingly insuf­fer­able lit­tle blue dot tucked away in a for­got­ten cor­ner of the cos­mos and won­dered, not for the first time, why the one immutable Law of the Uni­verse had been writ­ten the way that it had. […]