We live in troubled times. It could be worse -- much worse.
I'm not really sure why we're fascinated by dinosaurs. Maybe it's wired into the Collective Unconsciousness, some racial memory that serves as a constant reminder that the world can be scary if we're not vigilant. Perhaps it has something to do with our ego, as we look at the world we've made in our own image, and reflect naively on how far we've...