The Geecologist

The Machine Stops

The Machine Stops

Aug 31, 2024 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

They were not fighting now. Only the whispers remained, and the little whimpering groans. They were dying by hundreds out in the dark. She burst into tears. Tears answered her. They wept for humanity, those two, not for themselves. They could not bear that this should...
The Humans

The Humans

Nov 14, 2020 | Fiction | 0 comments

Humans are one of the few intelligent beings in the galaxy who haven’t quite solved the problem of death. And yet they don’t spend their whole lives screeching and howling in terror, clawing at their own bodies, or rolling around on the floor. Some humans do that...
The Sound and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury

Feb 9, 2019 | Fiction | 0 comments

The car stopped, started, stopped again. Below the window I watched the crowns of people’s heads passing beneath new straw hats not yet unbleached. There were women in the car now, with market baskets, and men in work-clothes were beginning to outnumber the...
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...
What killed the Neanderthals?

What killed the Neanderthals?

Dec 30, 2014 | Featured, Geekery, Non-Fiction | 0 comments

Credits to Luke Mitchell, published as Our Earth Has Endured Five Mass Extinctions: Here Comes The Sixth in Adbusters. In 1739, Captain Charles Le Moyne was marching four hundred French and Indian troops down the Ohio River when he came across a sulphurous marsh...