It's an art to be optimistic for the right reasons and pessimistic for the right reasons (by "right" I mean "right" according to you, of course, and I guess I'll let "right" according to others slide in there as well).

Costs and benefits are inherent in all phenomena that involve more than one person or one outcome.
It's often easier to express one ( Read more... )

God is a feeling that has emerged through time since humans have inhabited this earth. Religion cultivates it, science de-cultivates it.

A wave is a feeling. A wave does not "exist" in and of itself, but it is an emergent property of particles in motion. Electric fields, magnetic fields, and other vector fields do not "exist", but they do come to ( Read more... )

I went to see some Macalester musicians at Dunn Brothers on Snelling and Grand tonight, and they were absolutely compelling. Wonderful. Mike Vasich, Zach Klein--what could get better than that?

Speaking of "that", why am I not a part of that anymore? Why did I let myself stray away? I say to Mike and Zach that I'm at the U, eventually hoping to do a ( Read more... )