Whose Reality is This?

Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it.

Saturday, December 13, 2014

My Third Law: It Depends!

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Should burns take place in spring Or wait for autumn rain? Would baiting help or hinder? Can owl chicks live through flame? ‘I dunno,’ ...
Sunday, October 05, 2014

Why Academics' Writing Stinks - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Why Academics' Writing Stinks - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education "Why should a profession that trades in ...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Science in the hands of the beholder

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My ex-partner and I had an ongoing argument on university-based scientific research. He adamantly opposed publicly-funded research. His stan...
Wednesday, May 07, 2014

A-X Challenge: Y. Yodel?

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Due to an accident and injury, the last two days of this Challenge were postponed. Music is language. Not necessarily in word, but in tone...
Monday, April 28, 2014

A-Z Challenge. Xēros and xerosere.

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The letter 'x' is rather lonely. Compared to other letters of the alphabet, not many words begin with this letter. My first associ...
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Saturday, April 26, 2014

A-Z Challenge. Wonder and Wisdom

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"Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates "...
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Friday, April 25, 2014

A-Z Challenge. V is for.... Volk?

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Americans have their common generic name, 'Smith'. Germans have their common name, 'Volk'. I can always recognize upon intro...
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Thursday, April 24, 2014

A-Z Challenge. U-FOs?

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Roughly 96 miles from where I live is a small remote community called Marfa (Texas). Although the town is mostly known for its density of ar...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

A-Z Challenge. T is for Toponyms

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Edward Abbey once wrote about the human propensity to ascribe everything with a name: “Unless we can name things, they remain for us only...
Tuesday, April 22, 2014

A-Z Challenge. S. Statement for Today

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Today is Earth Day. It should be every day. It is also 'S' day. So here is my Statement for today. I pledge allegiance to the Ea...
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Saturday, April 19, 2014

A-Z Challenge: Quoting a Quark.

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"Quack, quack!", said the Quark. He thought he was a duck. The neighboring Loon looked over and said, "Oh, hum. How element...
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Friday, April 18, 2014

A-Z Challenge: P. I smell Petrichor.

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Here in the desert some of us can smell rain even before it falls to the ground around our feet. Yet when the precious blood of life hits th...
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Thursday, April 17, 2014

A-Z Challenge. Ohm.

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In case new readers haven't caught on yet, I have an odd and inexplicable curiosity of names. (My favorite subject is toponyms, but that...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

A-Z Challenge. N. What are 'Names.'

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What is a name? What is 'in' a name? It's a Human thing :) Lizard walked ungracefully into the café front room carrying a c...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

A-Z Challenge: M is Message and Meme.

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What is a meme? What is a message? What is a gene? What is the basic denominator of life? If you consider on a broad scale, information is...
Monday, April 14, 2014

A-Z Challenge: L. Life is a strange thing.....

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One door closes and another opens. Deja vu from 18 years ago.  "Life is a strange thing Just when you think you learnt how to us...
Saturday, April 12, 2014

A-Z Challenge. K is for Karma

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Karma is the mad hatter of a hater's world. – Amy Wynne Whatley Now as a man is like this or like that, according as he acts and acc...
Friday, April 11, 2014

A-Z Clallenge. J is for Jaguarundi.

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A mysterious small and elusive wild cat A small wild cat, not much larger than the average house cat, the jaguarundi eludes us humans in ...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

A-Z Challenge. I is for Intuition.

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"A healthy woman is much like a wolf - strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, intuitive and loyal. Yet separation from h...
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Wednesday, April 09, 2014

A-Z Challenge: H is for Heart.

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How many times have you asked yourself, "Why am I doing this?", "What am I doing?", "Am I on the right path?" ...
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