Evolution Wins on Field Goals
2014-02-06 – When one team goes out to play baseball and the opponent is playing basketball, you might have a hard time saying who won. One team wins on […]
Tag Archives: Culture
My Amazon Wish List
2014-02-04 – I have 375 books on my Amazon wish list. According to the US Census Bureau life expectancy figures, I can expect to live another 20 years. To […]
Groundhog Day
2014-02-02 – I shoveled snow again yesterday. Friday they were predicting as much as a foot of snow, but I shoveled, maybe, four inches. When I heard the forecast yesterday, […]
Indeterminacy of Guilt: Schrödinger’s Knox
2014-01-30 – If you know only the tiniest bit of quantum mechanics (a quantum of quantum mechanics or Q2M), you’ve surely heard of Schrödinger’s box. Schrödinger’s box is a […]
A Time to Be Born, a Time to Die
2014-01-28 – Pete Seeger came into my life through many back doors. His works were memes before the word “meme” was coined. I’m not big on pop culture, so when […]
Cold Fingers
2013-01-26 – I am typing now to try to get some circulation back into my fingers. Pat yourself on the back for being my frostbite remedy. Yes, it snowed […]
Politically Correct
2014-01-19 – “I’m not PC.” Did you ever hear that line? Of course you have. Did you ever think about what it really means? It always precedes or follows an […]
Eight Days a Week
2014-01-14 – If I understand my Roman calendar (which I may not), tomorrow is the Ides of January. Long months have the Ides on the 15th of the month. […]
My Brother’s Keeper
2014-01-12 – A favorite idea, at least in the popular press, is that kin selection tends to make us cooperate more with close family members and compete more with […]
Carpal Shovel Syndrome
2014-01-05 – Oy! A couple days ago, I noticed my wrist was hurting. I couldn’t imagine what was causing the pain. I usually get the pain in my right wrist, […]
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