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a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

Science

November 29, 2004

Haiku and the Double Helix| What I Am Thinking About

From New Perspectives Quarterly: The role of the scientific imagination in shaping the world to come is today uncertain as the great leaps forward . . . have revived old doubts and raised new fears about the human condition under the regime of reason. . . science is under attack both from religious extremists on… Continue reading

religion, Science, Spirit

religion, Science, spirituality
September 25, 2004

Collisions

Originally from the Daily Irrelevant, reBlogged by bev on September 24, 2004 Click image for animated version – slow download, but worth it If you think Earth is a mess, consider the turmoil in the constellation Hydra, where astronomers have spotted two monster galactic clusters slamming together in one of the biggest collisions ever recorded… Continue reading

Science

astronomy, constellation, galaxy, Science, stars
May 19, 2004

This Week’s Carnivals

DOGS CATS & THE TANGLED BANK The Tangled Bank is "a weekly showcase of good weblog writing . . . in the field of science and medicine, very broadly defined." [Found via Pharyngula.] Continue reading

Critters, Memes

biology, carnival, cat, dog, Science

Ancestral (Artificial )Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, writing is how I think, and I prefer to do it myself. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

I have changed this from Artificial to Ancestral, after Abi Awomosu @ Substack. This medium was made with human history, human thought. All of it, bright and dark. It is ancestral.

Poems

Please do not assume that I am the speaker/ subject of my poems.

In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

It is likely to be — it is best if it is — a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think — but it is not necessarily biographical.

Science

Haiku and the Double Helix| What I Am Thinking About

Collisions

This Week’s Carnivals