Scientific accuracy isn’t about how well the world ‘out there’ is represented, it is about how well other possibilities and accounts about the world are excluded from the discourse.

The universe is mind-threateningly large – so large that ‘it’ disturbs our categories of size and our predispositions to measure things. And yet, our best sciences tell us it exploded into place eons ago, and is thus finite. Some intriguing questions emerge: where is the edge of the universe, and what lies beyond it? I …Continue Reading >>>

We rob ‘reality’ of her most powerful gift to us when we try to understand her ‘as she is’ – often with the stern exactitude that forbids creative play, subversive exploration and fanciful yearnings. We act as if she were an object – sterile, dead or convenient. As if she were a bloodless cadaver in …Continue Reading >>>