Richard Dawkins Backs Off
Richard Dawkins was on The Daily Show last night. I’m a great fan of his, as you may know if you read my blog and have total recall. For your reading pleasure, a few of my many posts on his […]
Engineering
Yesterday I researched and wrote a post that included, among other things, the fact that engineers are the grads who are most in demand, and yet only 5% of current college students plan to major in engineering. Only 46% of […]
Space and Time
The discussion of Why Does E=mc2(and why should you care?) has begun over at SPOB. In the past, I’ve always written here about books, even if I was also writing about them somewhere else, so I’m going to duplicate it […]
God, Physics, Handbells
Bigsax spoke querulously. “Why am I not hearing the B and C where they should be?” He might have had a right to be querulous. He had had to sit in a meeting with me discussing things like emergent and experiential […]
God and the New Physics
The party was pleasant, I got the errands done, and then I took a broom, a sponge, and a bucket of hot water spiked with lavender and sage soap out to the porch. Scrubbing and sweeping and straightening improved the […]
The Purpose of Life
Who knows what I might do? Well, I suppose everyone does, because inevitably, having made all kinds of wild suggestions to myself, I send the unsuccessful knitting to the frog pond and do it over, profiting if at all possible […]
Creation and Evolution
It happens that I have found myself recently involved in discussions of, and in thinking about, creation and evolution. This is a little surprising to me because it is essentially a settled question for me, and for most of the […]