Still Listening

Letters on loss, healing, and the mystery of being alive —
from deep in the woods.

Tag: ANC

  • We’ll do anything to appear normal

    It’s called homeostasis and describes the process of living organisms to balance their physical and chemical environments to maintain life. It is homeostasis that maintains the hydration of the cells in our bodies, our blood pressure and even the rate at which we perspire. The concept was described by French physiologist Claude Bernard in 1865…

  • Reform in the ANC is scientifically impossible.

    I keep reading calls for the ANC to change or die. Sadly the science of change suggests that the ANC will find that impossible. A Harvard physicist gives me reason for this position. “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” by Thomas S Kuhn was published by University of Chicago Press in 1962 and for decades was…