The Geecologist

Creation Lake

Creation Lake

Jul 12, 2025 | Fiction | 0 comments

Neantderthals were prone to depression, he said. He said they were prone to addiction, too, and especially smoking. Although it was likely, he said, that these noble and mysterious Thals (as he sometimes referred to the Neanderthals) extracted nicotine from the...
The Origin Of Species

The Origin Of Species

Mar 23, 2024 | Essays, Geekery, Non-Fiction | 0 comments

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless...
The Zoo In Basel

The Zoo In Basel

Jun 23, 2019 | Non-Fiction | 0 comments

Until the nineteenth century it was generally, if not universally, believed that the world was a few thousand years old – something that could be measured by the timescale of human generations – as in the fifth chapter of Genesis. But in 1830 Charles Lyell...
Sapiens

Sapiens

Jun 24, 2017 | Non-Fiction | 0 comments

We can connect a limited number of sounds and signs to produce an infinite number of sentences, each with a distinct meaning. We can thereby ingest, store and communicate a prodigious amount of information about the surrounding world. A green monkey can yell to its...
Flowers for Algernon

Flowers for Algernon

Apr 12, 2016 | Fiction | 0 comments

“I have a right to know everything that pertains to the experiment, and that includes my future.” “No reason why you shouldn’t know.” He paused and lit an already lit cigarette. “You understand, of course, that from the beginning we...