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The Gunslinger
A friend of mine recommended The Dark Tower series to me almost 7 years ago, but I’ve only recently begun reading it. I put it off for so long partly because I’m not much of a Stephen King fan, but the first two books in the series (The Gunslinger and The Drawing of the Three) […]
Your health or your money
Over the last year, the frequency of my migraines has increased. Then last week, I had a new and frightening kind of aura. If I were seeing a neurologist, those two statements would be certain to worry her, and she’d likely demand all kinds of fancy brain scans. Unfortunately, I can’t afford health insurance. While […]
What’s wrong with the religious right?
From Karen Armstrong’s A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam: The problem of predestination and free will … indicates a central difficulty in the idea of a personal God. An impersonal God, such as Brahman, can more easily be said to exist beyond “good” and “evil,” which are regarded as masks […]
Berry Go Round!
The latest edition of Berry Go Round is up at The Phytophactor. I’m more than a little late with this announcement, but I promise it’s not because I’m bitter about missing the deadline with my Archeopteris post. That would just be petty and, despite what my sister may tell you, I really don’t hold a […]
Snow leopard kittens & our burgeoning population
I came across this adorable overload of a snow leopard at the Akron zoo frolicking in the snow. I’m not going to tell you how many times I watched the video because then I’d have to come to terms with all of the homework I should have gotten done instead. The zoo snow leopard is […]
Hold on to your socks
This article in New Scientist blew my mind. Basically, physicists were trying to find gravitational waves, but kept getting all this noise in their data. And by “noise” they might actually mean they’ve figured out that we’re “living a giant cosmic hologram.” I took a philosophy class about identity and perception once that made me […]