Data: with every call, tweet and purchase we create it, websites and governments harvest vast amounts of it and, in the spirit of "open", much of it we can download ourselves, but can we comprehend it?
Both "Café Müller" and "The Rite of Spring" feel crucially modern, as the slipperiness of language and ideology rule the day and younger generations grasp for other, more expansive ways of comprehending ourselves and the world we've inherited.
And while we cannot pretend to comprehend, we must, ask ourselves - what should we do?
It's really difficult to call on Cuba to improve when we are struggling to comprehend decisions we have made ourselves that are no less despicable".
Luckily for us, we don't have to comprehend it for ourselves, because the Global Drug Survey GDSS) have gone and done it for us.
Diverse characters, people so unlike ourselves that we couldn't comprehend a day in their life, encourage us to see the world from a different vantage point.
"We all think everyone thinks the same way as ourselves, so when people do things differently we can't comprehend it," Gillespie says.
When we don't poise ourselves to comprehend any situation, belief, or individual behavior, we contribute to how that person, belief, or situation will be misconstrued.
If the night sky offers us one thing, it is a liberating sense of ourselves in perspective, and of the many things we can neither comprehend nor control.
But if we can get our minds to fully comprehend what we do discover with the LHC, we may yet find God in ourselves.
There really is a radical mood in these countries, and forces have woken up that traditional Westminster or the mainstream media or perhaps we ourselves can't comprehend.
