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The howl of the cicadas is everywhere. The few close up sound rather like katydids, but overall, the only significant sound outside is like the sound effects for a UFO in a tacky 1950’s science fiction movie. No little green men, just brown and orange bugs. Okay, insects. Six legs is insects. An indolent day … Continue reading Cicadas. Joseph Campbell. etc.
News They’re Here! Giant Bugs Invade the U.S. Hide your pets and children! Billions, probably trillions, of giant, red-eyed insects called cicadas are emerging this month across the eastern U.S. This irksome swarm surfaces every 17 years to mate to make future pests.
Kabbala #1 – What Is Kabbala? Kabbalah is to Torah what philosophy is to science. Like science, the Torah gives us the facts that are fully perceived sensually and rationally quantifiable. Like philosophy, Kabbalah gives us the grander abstract picture that the facts present.
I have slept through my springtime sleepiness, and am noticing things are settling into their warm-weather demeanor. The afternoon is sunny in a way that just doesn’t happen in January, regardless of the presence or lack of clouds. What is up with the world? I read earlier in the print edition of the WSJ that … Continue reading Mathematics and life
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