Science
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Checking In
So. What have I been doing, while not writing? I'm in lazy summer mode, even though we've had only a few days that qualify. I've been reading science fiction and mysteries, and watching television (science fiction and mysteries.) The human imagination is a marvelous and limited thing. I've read two sci-fi novels recently, both written… Continue reading
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Charlie Rose: A sadly superficial show on Human Sexuality
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=6984115637129460871:125000:3206000&hl=en Last night, I watched a Charlie Rose program on Human Sexuality. It was, mostly, boring. This was not, in fact, a program on Human Sexuality; it was a program on adult heterosexual intercourse and human male erectile dysfunction. I’m seldom bored by Charlie Rose, even when I expect to be. This time, I didn’t… Continue reading
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My Nerd Score
Via Shelley I found ScienceBlogs (gee, thanks, more must-read) and via them I found this quiz, which they are all (OK, many of them) in a very macho competition, taking: Why is my score so low? Well, because I got all the science questions wrong, that’s why. Except In E=MC2, what does C stand… Continue reading
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Snapshot 08 February 02006
For much of the grey afternoonthe red-eyed hawk perched on the garden benchswiveling its marvelous head as I considered our need for God;this longing to have faith in the unlikely, to believein the mathematical inevitability of miracles. In the white laboratory we tryto locate, to weigh and measure — not God, but ourdesire for God.… Continue reading
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Late Night Thinking
I look and look for my notes on a lecture (years ago) by Pattiann Rogers; then realize that even if I find them, there is no certainty that my notes accurately reflect what she said. What I remember is: Science is the new religion. It is what we believe in, even when we do not… Continue reading
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