I am BIG, and I take up a lot of space. I am a womanspreader. Not by choice always, but by nature. I'm simultaneously aware of the dire urban need to SHARE space on the train--and I can make myself compact, contained, coiled into one seat. But if The Kineticist is...

I just heard Professor Naomi Oreskes on Brian Lehrer, talking about her Forward to the Pope's recent Encyclical on Climate Change & Inequality. She talks about Climate Change as a "Consumption Problem." I like this way of thinking. If we frame climate change as a...