On the Potency of Music
I love music. I spend a lot of time learning about its design and production. Despite my hearing loss, I try to play it. A question that has followed my […]
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Plastic, Rocks, and I
I’m having a crappy day, so I indulged in a bag of chili-cheese fritos. I usually keep a bag on hand since they are out-of-this-word fantastic crumbled on a salad, […]
A New Enlightenment?
There’s been a hiatus in my postings. I had a mastectomy and have been slow to get my energy, and perhaps more importantly, my focus back after a summer of […]
Postmodernism, quantum physics, and the unravelling of purpose.
Physics has been one of my favorite subjects since I was a kid and ignored much of second grade in favor of my science magazines. I started studying Physics and […]
How big is a soul?
I’ve always had an interest in consciousness, self awareness, and how the brain seems to have a sense of where the self ends and where the rest of the universe […]
Lessons from Evolution in the age of Media
The term, “meme,” doesn’t only mean a snarky cat photo. The term was coined by Richard Dawkins in his book, The Selfish Gene, and was meant to reflect a much […]
The Protean Loneliness Machine
Some time ago, just under 4 billion years, relatively early in the planet’s existence, some bubbles gained certain unusual capacities involving the regulated shuffling of electrons and sustained frothiness. Distinct […]
The Mitochondria Problem
It’s an odd project- developing an iconographic language for science. Science already has its languages; maths, taxonomies, chemistry, geometries, and so on. The issue is that these languages have proven […]
The mouse in my car
About a quarter century ago. The windows of my car were smashed in an act of vandalism. It took me a good while to scrape up enough cash to get […]
My First Hermitage
It was in 1991. I was in Lakewood, Ohio with a literally mangy rescue dog. Milton had passed mange on to me, and so we were both in recovery. I […]
Carbon and Celibacy
Monasticism is almost universally earmarked by sacrificing excess. In Christian Monasticism, one of the ‘excesses’ to get the boot is sex. To forego sex is to deny the carnal, in […]
A Brief History of (my) Solitude
About 50 years ago, in a well-to-do community near Detroit a child refused to be hugged. She didn’t speak, preferred the companionship of dogs, the confines of a hole she […]