I couldn’t decide which to post out of these two so I’m posting both. The first is Song of Myself by Walt Whitman. I love the guy’s who reads it although I’d hoped to find someone who was a bit more upbeat for this particular poem. The second video is a conversation between philosopher Peter [...]
I am going to take this opportunity to come clean on a problem that has infiltrated and affected every aspect of my life. The truth is that I have an insidious addiction. Like all addictions, it started with a gateway. Once addicted, I have changed my habits. I have started hanging around in sketchy places; [...]
One day, people are going to wake up and, while appearing exactly the same, the world will be totally different. Everyone will go to work the same way they did the day before. Buses, planes and train will come and go on schedule. The moon will be rising somewhere in the world. But everything will [...]
Why do 70 dead in Norway rank higher than tens of thousands in Somalia? That’s the title of a post written by Tom Paulson (who is Norwegian American) at Humanosphere. Before anyone gets up in arms, his point isn’t that what happened in Norway isn’t a big deal just that it’s worth asking ourselves: Why [...]
Midnight City–M83 I wanted to write about this post about compulsory vaccinations last week and then forgot about it. Luckily, a rebuttal popped up today so I can present two sides of the same coin. David Roepik at Big Think makes the case for compulsory vaccintions: What does society do when one person’s behavior [...]
The US Space Shuttle program was one of the big reasons I was interested in astronomy and as kid and probably the main reason I’m as big of a Carl Sagan fan as a I am. Yesterday, as I’m sure you’ve heard, the Space Shuttle Program came to an end when Atlantis landed at the [...]
I always feel like it’s a bit cheesy to muse about the big questions like the meaning of life–although somehow when Carl Sagan does it seems profound. It makes me a bit hesitant to do posts like these but one of my favourite web comics, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, happened to post a strip today [...]
Another installment of the Sagan series:
I don’t want love –The Antlers About a week ago, deep in the woods of northern Maine at the base of Mount Katahdin, I took part in a great conversation. It was about nuclear energy and it happened after about five pints of Pabst Blue Ribbon. No one around this specific campfire was an expert [...]
Somewhere in the ballpark of 190 hiked kilometers later, I’m back to civilization. Hiking Maine’s 100 Mile Wilderness and the state’s highest point Mount Katahdin, was an experience of a lifetime. It’s amazing how fast I got into “forest” mode and how slow I am at getting back into “city” mode. For that reason I [...]
