OK I get the feeling some of you did not do your home work so here is a pop quiz. Who is Ruckusium and what comic strip and later animated series did that name come from and why? Who is Birtherbillium...
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse Scratches its innocent behind on a tree. - Auden St Francis of Assissi had, to be sure, an odd relationship with his body. As a strict ascetic, he...
After the Big Bang came the Great Darkness. In indescribable darkness, matter raced away from itself in all directions, pushing space into being as it did so. Darkly, it spun and coalesced, exploded and merged, exploded again, grew heavier,...
Call this my third Essay on living with ADD and Depression and Anxiety… I had the most respect for these people. Not asking for a handout, just mutual support and understanding - and as always - laughing at the farce and foibles of life as you never can. I wouldn't be here if I couldn't laugh at myself, so why do others take yourselves so seriously?
Probably my favorite pop science series in the last few years is "Through the Wormhole" narrated by Morgan Freeman which examines the latest scientific theories and boldly relates them to questions of religion and spirituality. One of my favorite segments in the series...
One of the things I found out about years ago that too many people have not heard of today is how you can use your computer's idle CPU time to advance science. It all started when the SETI...