Welcome to the Anthropocene  

Unusual word of the day is "anthropocene", which WorldChanging used in their recent look at Climate change.

Best new meme from the New Yorker story? The idea that we have moved out of the Holocene and now find ourselves in the "Anthropocene" -- "This new age is defined by one creature—man—who had become so dominant that he was capable of altering the planet on a geological scale."