Humans On The Earth Behave

The Climate Is Doing Its Usual Tricks. There's Nothing Much Really Happening Yet. We Were Supposed To Be Halfway Toward A Frying World Now.

If It Hadn't Been For The Cold War, Neither Russia Nor America Would Have Been Sending People Into Space.

The Tropical Rain Forests Are A Telling Example. Once Cut Down, They Rarely Recover. Rainfall Drops, Deserts Spread, The Climate Warms.

What I Tend To Do Is To Wake About Five In The Morning-this Happens Quite Often-think About The Invention, And Then Image It In My Mind In 3d, As A Kind Of Construct. Then I Do Experiments With The Image...sort Of Rotate It, And Say, 'well What'll Happen If One Does This?' And By The Time I Get Up For Breakfast I Can Usually Go To The Bench And Make A String And Sealing Wax Model That Works Straight Off, Because I've Done Most Of The Experiments Already.

An Inefficient Virus Kills Its Host. A Clever Virus Stays With It.