Oh but this is fun. I had left a little comment on scifiheaven's web site about my search for the true source of the Who needs bird flu vaccine letter. And the poster gamely issued a retraction, which is nice. That would be the end of it, but for a rather odd remark. Chris, in the retraction, sa...
San Luis Obispo is close to my heart, and not just because of Aldous Huxley's entertaining After Many A Summer Dies the Swan, which informed my own thinking about neoteny and such. So it was fun to receive an email from a friend containing a clever letter to the editor of The Tribune in that f...
There’s been this genome conference going on here in Rome, which I have to say I have ignored because I’m really not sure how the church’s views on such things really matter. This morning, however, brought news from AP, at the [Washington Post]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...
This stats thing is both weird and addictive. It is fun to see how many people visit, when, and where they come from, even if there's nothing one actually does about it. But, as I said on day one (a whole week ago) of this adventure, What's with the guinea pigs?
Slimstat tells me that in the pas...
Neddie said “Dead to rights”. I'm not so sure.
You go out of your way to build bridges with people of different views and beliefs and have quite a few religious friends. You believe in the essential goodness of people, which means you're always looking for common ground even if that...
