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Death is the Great Sculptor, fashioning high art out of what he doesn't take from the block of marble that is life. Evolution works because of death and sterility, death's despairing twin; without death and sterility, the Earth would still be covered and stiff with bacteria and archaea, without any animals, plants, or fungi at all. Death brings ( Read more... )

For the past many days, I've been working away at uploading my files from the notes I wrote to my Qaballah and Tarot course to Scribd.com and revising said files and uploading the revised versions thereunto. Suddenly, things start happening:

Yesterday I watched Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, about a son of Poseidon and his ( Read more... )

So far, 2010 has been a good year for movies (well, the cream of the crop, anyway). I just watched Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. I was pleasantly surprised to find it actually hewed fairly close to the line of actual Greek mythology. So many movies with mythological themes that have come out over the last couple of decades ( Read more... )

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Lately I've been reading Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan's Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997; ISBN 0-520-21064-6). On pp. 171-172, they say: "The Canadian biologists K. Pirozynski and D. Malloch belive plants emerged from symbioses between algae and fungi. According to ( Read more... )