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2022
Whitewater Rafting Trip Spreadsheet2021
- January
Our Way Forward2020
- June
- April
- March
- February
- January
Cross the Great Divide
Honest Jim
Wide of the Mark
Gamow on Gravity
The Dark Lady of DNA
Augustine redux
The End of Faith?2019
- October
- August
- July
- May
- April
- February
- January
fin de siècle German optimism
Short and sweet
Getting Over the Hump
Sprinting down the Colorado
Touring with Ted
Visualizing Relativity
Entropy is so simple2018
- November
- June
- March
- February
- January
Pandora has many boxes
Persistent kindness
Celebrating reading
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun
A Finch in Time
Ordinary Overuse of Genius
Supporting Law Enforcement
Dominion or co-existence?
The Heart of Tolstoy
The Department of Public Works
The lonely warrior
Ever England
So Long, Steve
Laconic Love
Too simply pure2017
- December
- October
- September
- August
- April
- March
- February
- January
Diner: A movie that never gets old
What is enlightenment?
Reforming progress
Apocalyptic politics
The gestation of Christianity
Evolution and Truth
Kafka comes to Argentina
I shall to sleep
Is truculence alienation?
Shut Up, Legs!
Are there Laws of Medicine?
Along the Way with Britt Towery
Evolution + Intelligent Design = 42
Citizenship: Making sense of hysteria2016
- November
- October
- September
- August
- July
- June
- April
American Soul
Crude, Rude, and Impolite
The Law of Political Scruples
Has Lamarckism been revived?
The Naturalist
Looking back at O. J.
Is Cuba an exemplar of U. S. foreign policy?
Marooned on Mars
The smartest Nazi
There is "spin", and there is bearing false witness2015
- December
- November
- August
- July
- May
- April
- March
- February
Stuck at twelve
Napoleon
Large Scale Genomics in Beijing
Is the Lost Cause finally getting lost?
At play with Uncle Ron
Evolutionary zinger: Bats, moths and mites
Evolutionary zinger: Ants and acacia trees
Breathing
A good man cannot be found
Heart out of darkness
Memories of Shelby Ferguson
Trent: Too little, too late2014
- December
- November
- October
- September
- August
- July
- June
- April
- March
- February
- January
The physical sublety of life
Hieronymus Bosch in L.A.
So slender a thread
The Sylmar Scribbler gets a new name
Did Vermeer do it with mirrors?
The Last Kingdom
Of ovules and ovaries
Halting steps to soul freedom
If I ruled the world
Resident artist
Life, education, and life-long learning
Candide in Maryland
Milestones of our courtship
The capacious heart of Marilynne Robinson
Why read history?
Paul, simply
La main gauche est maladroit
The burden of combat
The Origins of Modern Science
Days of Our Lives has an opening on their writing staff
Punctuated equilibrium
Vox de intellectu - the voice of understanding
Celia's Lullaby
Nightmares in L.A.
The origins of modern society
Watching Woody Allen movies - or not
The many ways of misusing quantum physics
The heart of the orchard
My favorite inquisitor
Quelle est la quenelle?
The Era of Open Information2013
- December
- November
- October
- September
- August
- July
- June
- May
- March
- January
Convivencia is a state of mind
To the power of love
In celebration of curiosity
Home brewing: Yeast is your friend
False confession? How is that possible?
To the Hebrew congregation in Newport Rhode Island
Fuzziness is all
AVID teacher
Can religion and science be reconciled?
I, Benvenuto Cellini
Humbled again by particle physics
The ghost of Schaeffer past
Simple thoughts on religion
The War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration
Knives? Guns? Or Disarm?
Hearts and minds
Bicycle dreams?
How should we then live?
Absolutely relative
Christianity good, secularism bad
The good old days of Christendom2012
- November
- October
- September
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 7 from Bly - last day- Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 6 from Klamath Falls
- Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 5 from Ashland
- Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 4 from Ashland
- Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 3 from Crater Lake!
- Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 2 from Fort Klamath
- Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 1 from Silver Lake
- Cycle Oregon 2012 journal: Day 0 from Bly
- August
- July
- June
- May
- April
- March
- February
- January
Celebrating Frog - street jokester of Eugene
Zeno's Paradox? Not so much
The Bible Tells Me So, continued (3)
Voltaire is a sharp kick in the pants
Jefferson's legacy
Reasoning with Thomas Paine
There but for the grace of God goes ... Ayn Rand?
Sleepwalking amid new ideas
Slavery was the First Cause of the Civil War
Jesus, simply
Is religious tolerance religious freedom?
Swerving into modernity
Imagination nonpareil
Lizbet Salander, meet Inspector Maigret
Absolute truth is a tough nut2011
- December
- September
- August
- July
- June
- May
- April
- March
- February
- January
The Genius of Apple
Oregon loves New York: memories of 9/11
Here's the Thing about equal rights
Chess tournament etiquette: Performance art?
You can't go home again . . . to Husterhöh Kaserne2010
- December
- November
- October
- September
I hear America singing
Cynicism of the highest order
Evo devo: where a little means a lot
Thanks to my favorite professor, Dr. Kenneth Krane
Unrequited feast
"Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him."
Hope against hope: Immortality and illusion
Resident physicians: Too tired, or what?
Philosophy and wine, or modern critical theory for the (inebriated) million
- August
Louise Watson - In Memoriam
The promise of new life
Mother Teresa's advice
Evensong
haiku- haiku
- haiku
- haiku
Burt Ferguson Remembered: passions- Burt Ferguson Remembered: words, words, words
- Burt Ferguson Remembered: WWII
- Burt Ferguson Remembered: early life
- Burt Ferguson: in memoriam
In the mood for a sweet scientific joke? Biology meets chemistry
Healthcare and the last days - Letting go
- July
Martin Gardner - Thanks for many hours of delight
The Mosque near Ground Zero, continued - Britt Towery- The Mosque near Ground Zero, continued - Leonard Pitts
- The Mosque near Ground Zero - Uniting Americans Against Terrorism
The Bard of Wasilla
Iraq as a Failed Anti-Terrorism Policy
Our vital Microbiome: bacteria cure diseases too!
Toyota Prius's not so "sudden acceleration"
Examining race and innocence
Is the International Baccelaureate program anti-American?
Watch USA v England . . . in Lego-motion!
The bigotry of "judicial activism"
- June
- May
- March
- February
- January
Unforgettable, complete Holocaust story
Macroeconomics, the rap version
Wandering Mennonites
Totalitarian Zeitgeist
Cartesian dualism is driving me crazy
David Brooks over-reacts to McChrystal's firing
"Superman violates the laws of physics!" (I will never live that down.)
Cheating on a metaphysics exam
Abiogenesis or Creation?
The goriest story ever told2009
Bacteria talk to each other ... new approach to antibiotics?