This is fantastic: "When you read that word cosmos, you might begin to imagine the most expansive physical world your mind can build. Deep fields of glittering

This is fantastic: "When you read that word cosmos, you might begin to imagine the most expansive physical world your mind can build. Deep fields of glittering, star-filled galaxies stretching out in every direction, and maybe into forever. But even that image represents only the barest sliver of what is meant by ‘cosmos’. To build a cosmos, you have to extend your imagination to all of space and all of time. Only one of Earth’s creatures can pull off that cognitive trick. All living things are attuned to their environment: bacteria can sense chemical shifts in their immediate surroundings; migrating birds know our planet well enough to wing annually across its whole face; dung beetles navigate by the light of the Milky Way. But only the human being lives inside a cosmos, and only recently." Nobody writes about this kinda stuff better than Ross Andersen. (Also worth noting: he conducted what is probably the best interview to date with Elon Musk => http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/the-elon-musk-interview-on-mars/ http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/the-elon-musk-interview-o...)