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an exploding star caused us to walk upright?

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2019.05.29

It's pretty amazing to see what we can work out these days, such as a distant supernova leading to humanity's ancestors walking upright. Or so we're learning this morning. Pity that we're making such a hash of both the opportunity we've been given and the geologic record at the same time.

rand()m quote

Theory without practice is pointless, practice without theory is mindless.

—(often attributed to Vladimir Lenin)