Noteworthy entries.
I've been diligently avoiding the unavoidable visual and auditory warnings of the impending Yule since mid-October. But in the second half of December I'm ready to embrace "The Christmas Station" and decorations and such. However, I always preferred the offbeat things, like Weird Al's "Christmas at Ground Zero" [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsvZHHLQ8-c[/youtube] and…
With apologies in the lead for anyone feeling this is inappropriate, the Missouri Center for the Book has something for the poetry lover. Last January, Missouri was granted its first official Poet Laureate. At the inaugural celebration, Walter Bargen read a new poem for the occasion, a poem which spoke…
I followed Erich's example and (after doing extensive independent research) bought the same camera that he's been brandishing and bragging about. I needed an adequate camera that fits in any pocket, and the Canon SD1100SI ELPH fits the bill. It's slightly larger than my cell phone, but smaller than my…
The journal Evolution: Education and Outreach has posted, online, free, an entire issue on the evolution of the eye. The eye is one of those sticking points in the ongoing debate with antievolutionists. Its complexity, its improbability, its seeming miraculous advent seems to point directly to interventionist manifestation. Admittedly, it…
The story is famous and might be just a bit apocryphal, how Galileo turned his new telescope on the sky and offered to show many important people what he had found. They refused to look, afraid to compromise the world view that bound them to their place and time. Afraid,…