Mars Curiosity Rover Theory of Existence

Mars Curiosity Rover Theory of Existence tries to explain in a sentence what life explains in a decade. It is a fair compression.

The theory's gift is vocabulary. Once you have the word, you can see the thing — in your office, in your family, in the news. Before the word, it was only a vague discomfort after dinner.

The idea is simple, and like most simple ideas it is easy to nod at and hard to use. The nod is free. The use costs attention, every day, in small change.

In every examination hall there are two kinds of silence: the silence of those who prepared, and the silence of those who are preparing excuses. The room can hear the difference.

Learning is the one wealth that survives every partition of fortune. Tomorrow will provide the test. It always does.