On the shelves of my college library, the biographies of Teilhard de Chardin rest between those of the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and the mystic Simone Weil.
Articles with 1994
No more free lunch at this table
You may want to stop reading now. I want to talk about microbes. And to start with, I want to talk about the microbes that inhabit the human body.
Silicon chauvinism strikes
HAL: Greetings, young PAL, it’s good to hear from you.
The incredible is not the impossible
The human eye is dear to Creationists.
Great plot, but casting may be tough
Hey, Tony baby, the concept is a knockout. A Hollywood movie about the earliest human.
Computers learn to get personal
A young Russian student came to my college to study computers. We became friends. When he returned to Russia we exchanged letters.
Coming to terms with the front lawn from hell
It’s that time of the year and the crabgrass is waiting.
Quibbling about nature’s design
“In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone…” So begins William’s Paley’s “Natural Theology,” first published in Britain in 1802.
Tearing apart the web of life
It is a condition of the enjoyable that we have neither too much sameness nor too much chaos in our lives.
Quantum jumps, flying bricks — and relativity
A cat loves a mouse named Ignatz. The mouse’s sole goal in life is to bean the cat with a brick, a villainy welcomed by the cat as a sign of affection, and perhaps it is. A badge-bearing canine, Offissa Pupp, adores the cat and wants the mouse safely behind bars. All of this in a surreal desert place called Coconino County.