I thought this could only happen in the context of a nuclear disaster. I had dealt with the consequences of a computer virus, >
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"My friend Lowell has moderately severe Tourette's syndrome," wrote neurologist Oliver Sacks, who died in 2015, in his book Everything in Its Place.
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“It is worse, much worse than we think,” begins The Uninhabitable Earth, a book by David Wallace-Wells.
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“Nothing has changed the nature of man as much as the loss of silence,” wrote philosopher Max Picard between the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War.
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In 1654, Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician, wrote, "all of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone."
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We stood on a beach in Iceland near the 63rd parallel north on an April morning. The rain was running down our faces.
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