Halloween is about ghosts and goblins and scary sounds of spooky beings in dim corners. There’s a movement to Halloween: skeletons are alive and goblins pop up in the shadows, as the kids hop around their neighborhoods in funny costumes collecting candy. Some older...
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Like millions of people, I watched the Trump/Clinton presidential debate the other night. I learned very little new, but was happy to see, in my opinion, boorish Trump scrunched in every category, starting from the first sentence when he asked permission to call...
To what extent does the future govern the present in our lives? In an earlier blog (Time: Real and Imagined; January 2, 2016), I raised this question. Let’s say I was guaranteed (impossible, of course) that I would live an extended life, but I was also assured that...
Ask yourself to distinguish between a novelist and a scientist. You will no doubt say that the novelist writes narratives derived from his or her imagination and past experiences. Novelists thrive on subjectivity. The scientist, you may say, probes nature objectively,...
In her comprehensive biography, The Invention of Nature (Alfred A. Knopf, 2016), Andrea Wulf tells how Alexander Humboldt (1769 -1859) was the first to understand that the natural world “was interwoven as with ‘a thousand threads’.” Humboldt saw “unity in variety.” He...
