Sunday, December 25, 2005

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Interludes There's no time like the present. There's no present like the time.
Saturday, December 24, 2005

Christmas Eve in Wisconsin

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Mourning doves, cardinals, blue jays, house finches, juncos, goldfinches, purple finches, starlings (8 in a square foot patch of grass!), ci...
Friday, December 16, 2005

Our Culture, What’s Left of It

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Short version: Go read it. Long version: This is a collection of essays by Dalrymple, in two related categories: Arts and Letters and So...
Monday, December 12, 2005

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Birds at CERN I'd almost forgotten. My eldest asked me to keep an eye out for birds while I was in Switzerland. Since I spent most of...
Friday, December 09, 2005

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What a wonderful phrase! OK, it's lunch time. What's on offer? Roti de boeuf mince, poisson--the roti looks like Salisbury steak,...
Thursday, December 08, 2005

CERN Trip

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I don't have a narrative for this; just scattered observations. The light switches are all rockers, with a tiny night light and operati...
Thursday, November 24, 2005

My Father

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My father died last week. He was 78. Today is Thanksgiving, and it seems a good time to tell about him. I can't give more than snapshot...
Wednesday, November 16, 2005

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"Pooh Bear Childcare" Would you trust your child to "a bear with very little brain?"

Real ER

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From Annals of emergency Medicine via Chronicle of a Medical MadHouse : proposed Emergency Room reality shows.
Friday, November 11, 2005

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Extreme Soft Diet My father was in the hospital after a heart attack, and was on a mechanical soft diet: that is, everything was pureed. ...

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Happy Hour Coffee? As far as I can determine, Starbucks doesn't have a Happy Hour. Why not? Can't you see frat boys at the tables...
Saturday, November 05, 2005

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The lighter side of dividing After my mother-in-law's death, we sent our eldest son to house-sit (and gain some practical experience in...
Friday, November 04, 2005

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Dark Matter again I went to the talk "Measuring Dark Matter at Colliders:" how could I not go? Dark matter and dark energy are ...
Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Intelligent Design

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A Voyage to Arcturus has been running a series on evolution and ID . You should have a look at it. This debate is painful to watch. In a ...

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Singing Mice So mice can sing . I've often wondered what you'd hear if you recorded ambient sounds and frequency-shifted them. Wh...
Saturday, October 29, 2005

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"What I really need" On the lighter side of things: After the funeral service a couple of friends from church came up and asked ...
Tuesday, October 25, 2005

A Death in the Family

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When the third recurrence of breast cancer landed in her bones we all knew it was very bad news. Still, the radiation and hormone treatment...
Saturday, October 22, 2005

Children at War

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by P.W. Singer Don’t try to read this book if you don’t have a strong stomach. Recruiting children (as young as 8 or even 6) for war is a h...
Friday, October 21, 2005

Justice and Equity

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"All men are brothers." "All men are created equal." "One man, one vote." "When Adam delved and Eve s...
Thursday, October 20, 2005

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Classical vs rap music I still say that rap is just indifferent poetry recited in front of a loud beat. I prefer something that required a...