Gelotology

Humans can be distinguished from other life forms by the opposable thumb, sophisticated languages, abstract thinking, embarrassment…

The Art of Expanding the Possible

Who knew that looking at your own feet twice would expose the crevasse between science and politics?

Consciousness + Life

Paul Gauguin collides with The Mall of America

Genius, Imagination & the Government

Obviously, this brings us to Charles Sanders Pierce, probably the most extremely…

Tessellation

By many accounts, from the professionals who count such things, the English language sits atop the heap of languages ranked by number…

Let’s Say You’re an Organic Molecule

You really like exchanging your atoms, wheeling and dealing bits and pieces of yourself and…

Open Questions

When the pope locked up Galileo for a new fact that offended God, Galileo asked a couple of questions:

Savor the Wonder that Finds Facts

If you want to know where you are, just look at your feet twice.

Oy, The Heresy!

Science. Politics. Art.

Galileo Galilei in Italy and Frances Bacon in England lived a thousand miles…