Eleven is drawn with parallel lines. Parallel lives. In one, my son survived. He is with us in England, in the rain; or we are still in California, in drought. He is like me at that age–obsessed with science and discovery; or like his mother, he is at the piano, practicing. He is like neither …
The Essence of Instinct for Charles Darwin That summer you were alone with your thoughts, which is to say you were never alone. Nuage. Vapours. The Narwhal. Collecting iridescent bugs in your barely-visible net. Cataloguing, by sputtering candle the endless lists, ink darkening the corner of your mouth. Your armament of facts was nothing …
“There are two ways to live your life: one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle.” -Albert Einstein I recently met someone who is striving to further the idea of the technological singularity. He used an interesting metaphor to describe his work. He asserted that, given …
“To fully understand poetry, we must first be fluent with its meter, rhyme and figures of speech, then ask two questions: 1) How artfully has the objective of the poem been rendered and 2) How important is that objective? Question one rates the poem’s perfection; question two rates its importance. And once these questions have …
