Night 17

SCIENCE: The natural world as laboratory and temple

Readings

Tonight the natural world shows up as both laboratory and cathedral. Oliver tells you that you don't have to be good -- you just have to pay attention to the wild geese. Thomas looks through a microscope and finds something that sounds like religion. London drops a man into seventy-five-below-zero cold and lets the laws of physics take their course. The triangle here is between awe, analysis, and indifference -- each writer takes a different corner.

Journal entry coming soon.