E. O. Wilson wants to know why you’re not protesting in the streets

By Lisa Hymas
Edward O. Wilson

E. O. Wilson thinks you should get out there and make some noise.

We had lots of questions for acclaimed biologist and conservationist Edward O. Wilson when he dropped by the Grist office recently while touring to promote his latest book, The Social Conquest of Earth.

New Obama Executive Order Seizes U.S. Infrastructure and Citizens for Military Preparedness

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The Soul Tree from the book, The Soul Tree by Laura Hope-Gill

I have become the place
I grew into
And out of. Hear what my branches teach.

Hear how the loosest limb whispers
How I will be the first to feed, first fallen.
How I will fall from the inside out
And let what's in me out.

I have become the dry thing.
The mountain air strives to revive me.
Anymore I've no need

What Love Looks Like
A conversation with Tim DeChristopher by Terry Tempest Williams
Published in the January/February 2012 issue of Orion magazine

Thank you, Andy Rooney
Andy Rooney on Women Over Forty
By: Veronica Kavanagh (View Profile)

Andy Rooney says:

As I grow in age, I value women who are over forty most of all. Here are just a few reasons why: A woman over forty will never wake you in the middle of the night to ask, “What are you thinking?” She doesn’t care what you think.

The mammalian body has evolved over millions of years. Survival skills of human and animal at times seem almost supernatural. Science is constantly coming up with more discoveries about the amazing abilities of man and animal to survive.

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Are we becoming a police state? Five things that have civil liberties advocates nervous
By
Sal Gentile
December 7, 2011

Oakland police officers in riot gear line Frank H. Ogawa plaza, the site of an Occupy Wall Street encampment, Tuesday, Oct. 25. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Is our Constitution under siege?

Climate Campaign to Asheville, NC ~ November 30, 2011

Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature, The Global Warming Reader, and other defining books
on the environment has become a galvanizing force in American politics. McKibben will be speaking
at UNCA's Lipinsky Hall on Wednesday , November 30th as part of his current national tour. This free program begins at