Not all positive responses are created equal. — A positive response is always a great thing, but not all positive responses are created equal. Different people can mean different things. Fortunately, you can be pretty sure what they’re really saying, thanks to this handy guide: Agent: I can sell this. Manager: I can sell this. Producer: I can…

And How Jewish Law Nailed The Solution Centuries Ago — A study has come out by soil expert Dr. Thomas Crowther, who you may remember as the man who proved that prior estimates of Earth’s tree population were far too law. Four years ago, he proved the planet has, get this, three trillion trees on it. However, that’s down from…

Every time there is a climate conference or protest, people who care about preventing runaway climate change travel to the site in question in order to lend their support. Meanwhile, these people are subjected to a peanut gallery of apathetic armchair warriors making inane comments about how they shouldn’t fly. …

Many people people have noted this week that it is unfair that, following the disastrous fire at Notre Dame, $950m has already been raised to rebuild it, all while Flint still doesn’t have clean water, Puerto Rico’s power grid is still in shreds, and carbon dioxide levels are hovering around…

On Friday, Donald Trump addressed a group in which he made a reference to a poem by Robert Frost, “Mending Wall” — a poem featuring a dreadful old fuddy-duddy who loves walls, and that is actually about how walls separate us. Here’s Trump’s quote: That’s not actually how the line in the poem reads, which led me to wonder, does Trump have some other version of the poem? As I said at the time:

This is game I came up with, designed for workshops or group sessions. The game illustrates how climate change can cause extreme weather events that floods and droughts, even those are opposing problems. It’s designed to help children in particular visualize the problem of climate change. Requirements Players 5+ plus the…

You have paid your dues, you have written your training wheels scripts, and you’re now a brilliant writer. You deserve an agent. The problem is that any agent worth their salt already has a solid line-up of clients, and receives more submissions than they — or their assistant — can…

If you have a particular talent with words, it’s all the more important to find the right industry for that talent to truly shine. To that…

A reply to Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress”, in which the speaker tells his beloved that if she will not give her honor to him, the worms will take it from her grave.