I’m tired of hearing about the Blue Planet.
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Patch Adams (center) in 2014 • Photo by Ricardoh Fernandez (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Let’s hear it for the eccentrics
Meet Patch Adams, M.D. Laughter is the best medicine, says Dr. Adams, who has a degree in medicine from the Medical College of Virginia.
The original 1995 image of the Eagle nebula • NASA, Jeff Hester, and Paul Scowen (Arizona State University)
More than gas, less than Jesus
A few weeks ago [in 1995], the Space Telescope Science Institute released two spectacular pictures of a star-forming region in the constellation Serpens. It was an easy matter to download them quickly over the Internet into my computer.
Caenorhabditis elegans • Image by Bob Goldstein, UNC Chapel Hill (CC BY-SA 3.0)
A worm for the ages
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em,” says Malvolio in Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” quoting Maria’s letter.
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Still, the X‑ray retains its hold on our imagination
Stout little X, with its feet planted firmly on the ground and its arms uplifted in surprise, is our emissary to the unknown.
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A refrigerator door for the world
The French scientist/theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who died in 1955, believed that life on Earth is driven upwards towards complexity and consciousness by a psychic force present in all of matter.
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Finnegans Wake and Dr. Seuss
Which of the following strings of letters do you find most interesting?
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Annie Dillard, then and now
Annie Dillard’s “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” may be the most popular nature book of the late 20th century.
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The revenge of the human Dixie cup
This is the tale of the disposable soma. It’s not exactly a pleasant tale, especially if you are on the silver side of fifty.
A great blue heron in flight • Photo by Tom Raymo (© 2021)
Tuned into the deepest mysteries
Pinned to the wall above my desk is a quote I found many years ago. I can’t remember where it came from, or anything about the author except that his/her name is Dixon.