Dear Mr. Computer, my husband Vernon stays up late every night, sometimes til 3 or 4 in the morning, “cruising the information highway,” as he calls it.
Articles from August 2021
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Groundhog Day: All sun and games
Elsewhere in the news this morning you will read or hear about Punxsutawney Phil, the famous Pennsylvania groundhog that did or did not see its shadow when it emerged from its burrow yesterday.
A remaining section of the Bering Land Bridge • Bering Land Bridge National Preserve (CC BY 2.0)
Coming to America — the first time
Raven was walking on the beach. He was lonely. He had the sun, the moon, the land and the sea, but he desired the company of other creatures.
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Define life? That’s easy to do…or is it?
What is life? No question in science is more fundamental. No question is more difficult to answer.
Enlightenment visionary Thomas Jefferson
Waiting in the dark
The Enlightenment has been taking its knocks lately.
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But who’s worrying about those big rocks in the sky?
Doc, I’m telling you, my fear has become compulsive. I can’t sleep. Can’t eat. Can’t work. I go around looking up at the sky.
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How to love the world of Cyp-40
There is only one question, says the poet Mary Oliver: “How to love this world.”
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World’s too big, Santa scaling back
Dear Friends, it is with considerable regret that I announce that this is the last year I will make my traditional rounds with reindeer and sleigh.
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Telltale swimmers in the sand
Sahara! Rolling dunes, sun-bleached rocks. Camels and date palm oases. Salt caravans and shimmering mirages. Bedouins in flowing robes. The hidden city of Timbuktu. The French Foreign Legion.
Galileo under house arrest • Painting by Solomon Alexander Hart (1847)
Creationism’s prison
“In the city of Pisa, a little boy was born with stars in his eyes. His parents named him Galileo.”