"It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena. A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter. Prediction becomes impossible..."

--Jules Henri Poincare, Science and Method

(found in Stormchasers: The Hurricane Hunters and Their Fateful Flight into ( Read more... )

A hat tip to Hugo Schwyzer. If you grew up in California, you'll understand this poem. If you're not, let me just say that California has a tendency to be somewhat ahistorical, and leave it at that.

(If you're curious, I once did an essay attempting to explain why history, which touches on some of the same subjects, but it's not very good. I ( Read more... )

There was neither non-existence or existence then ( Read more... )

Micah 6:8 (New King James Version)

8 He has shown you, O man, what is good;
      And what does the LORD require of you
      But to do justly,
      To love mercy,
      And to walk humbly with your God?

I stumbled across this in a post about the All Saints Pasadena controversy, and I wanted to put it somewhere where I would remember it ( Read more... )