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Several years ago I read an article in Discover magazine about the end of the universe. It was a pretty spooky description of what the end might be like–even though it’s trillions of years in the future. I think the current theory is that all matter in the universe is currently drifting apart–there won’t be [...]
In a way J.D. Salinger has really been dead for a long time. I don’t mean to sound callous, but his silence was a kind of death. He shut himself off from the world so completely, apparently never realizing that his reclusiveness would just make him even more famous. Every once in a while I’d [...]
It’s apocryphal, but supposedly Albert Einstein once said that the two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. I’m sure harnessing the power of hydrogen will bring about some great advances but if we could ever harness the power of stupidity our potential would be limitless.
Remember when you were in elementary school and you’d look up dirty words in the dictionary? Sometimes they weren’t there, but when they were it was pretty thrilling. And then, presumably, you grew up. If you have kids of your own you might wonder if they also look up dirty words in the dictionary, but, [...]
Winter can’t last forever. At least I keep telling myself that while I’m walking around wrapped in wool from head to toe. Actually the temperature’s been up and down lately, but reading Neal Gaiman’s young adult book Odd And The Frost Giants has been a nice way to enjoy winter. The story is a tribute [...]
Earlier this week I read an article about how scientists think oceans of diamond, with great diamond icebergs floating in them, may be found on Uranus and Neptune. What I wonder about is what liquid diamond looks like exactly. I think of diamonds as crystals, and the Oxford English Dictionary backs me up with its [...]
When I saw this book, Why Do We Care About Literary Characters? by Blakely Vermeule, arrive at the library the other day, I immediately thought of several answers without even opening it. You can probably come up with some of your own, and please feel free to share. Here are just a few I thought [...]
Powell’s Books is one of my favorite sites–an independent bookstore that’s online, but, if I ever visit Portland, Oregon, it’s going to be one of the first places I visit (right after the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, or maybe the zoo). And now Powell’s is offering a chance to win a $250 gift [...]
You may have heard of the “slow parenting” movement, which, I think, is a response to micromanaging parents who schedule “play dates” for their children and put them into every extracurricular activity from piano practice to soccer to underwater basket weaving. Although I’m not a parent myself I suspect the micromanaging parent is largely a [...]
Recently I’ve been thinking about the word compassion. The prefix com comes from the Latin word meaning “with”, so in a way it means “with passion”. Maybe that’s why, even though I think of sympathy as a synonym for compassion, I think compassion has a more active connotation. You feel sympathy for someone, but you [...] |
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