Forget the economy. News about what happens when we’re exposed to common chemical pollutants at home and away has been coming so fast and furious lately, it’s hard to keep up.
Sometimes it feels to me like we've been plunged into an alternate universe where space aliens have dismantled our country and put it back together all cattywampus.
Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, once wrote that "we are as gods and might as well get good at it." I was reminded of that wisdom last week by two pieces of news: that the Large Hadron Collider is maybe about to eat the Earth for dinner.
So I'm back from my Labor Day travels, which saw the family throw the bikes in the old jalopy and head off for a long weekend at the home of a close Relative in upstate New York.
