Equilibrium-plus

This is from the sixth edition of the Near-Earth Object newsletter,  to which you can and should subscribe, right here .

It occurred to me that one theme of the last few years, for me and perhaps for society in general, has been the pursuit of something like balance; a kind of tolerable, flexible equilibrium.

“Normalcy” is one of the ways we talk about it in terms of current events and public life, but with an understanding that the “old normal” isn’t quite going to cut it once we get th...