Science for Us: A while back, I got invited by an artist friend to her loft for a Sunday-afternoon discussion she was hosting on the Anthropocene. I RSVPd yes, enthusiastically, even though I wasnt precisely sure what the term meant. The definition Id sort of assumed the age in which mankind had managed to overwhelm the world had come to me almost through osmosis, from having encountered the term in journals, magazines, song lyrics. It was like a song that had been playing on the radio so often that I could...