I am in here.
Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial. — Edward Abbey
Jason Rosenhouse, of Evolutionblog, a mathematician, defuses the Creationists’ attempts to use math to disprove evolution. Probability Theory: Claims of mathematical disproof of evolution typically make use of probability theory. The idea is to show that it so improbable that a given complex biological structure, such as the vertebrate eye, could have evolved gradually that … Continue reading Math vs. the Creationists
I don’t know why our plane has to sit here burning up 1000 pounds of fuel until we are light enough to use the only runway open for business now here in the Denver International Airport, but here we sit. At least they’re giving us wine and whatnot, and letting us use the small electronics. … Continue reading (written on the plane home)
Enjoy, Kate. I just dropped mine off for his first year of college. Electric Venom: So how did these past five years go by so damn fast?
