Archive for 2010
Berry Go Round
The latest edition of Berry Go Round is up at Foothills Fancies. Sally did a fantastic job of finding terrifically interesting posts (including my post on the fossil Archeopteris, of course). One of my favorite submissions describes a potential identification for a very puzzling fossil from January’s Berry Go Round host. To show that I […]
Just a shoe
Protected: Portrait
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An Outside Perspective
I grew up in an extremely conservative, strange, and cult-like church. It took me a long time to figure out that there wasn’t something wrong with me, that the problem was the church. When I was in elementary school, the music minister’s wife, Patty Jo, disappeared. We learned years later that her husband had killed […]
The Catch
Yesterday I was supposed to go to a meeting about my research and take an exam. This weekend I had two migraines, but they weren’t very bad, so I pushed through them to prepare. Working through those migraines is likely why I got the kind of migraine on Monday that made it impossible for me […]
Religious truth doesn’t describe the world
From Karen Armstrong’s A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Science demands the fundamental belief that there is a rational explanation for everything; it also requires an imagination and courage which are not dissimilar to religious creativity. Like the prophet or the mystic, the scientist also forces himself to confront the […]
Instead
I’d like to stay home this morning with my coffee and a novel, or maybe finish up some blog posts I’ve started, but not finished, in the last few weeks. But you’ll have to wait to hear what I think about The Wild Trees, to analyze February’s migraine data, and to find out what music […]