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Philosophy
- Sep 22, 2014.
Life, education, and life-long learning
- Dec 16, 2013.
In celebration of curiosity
- Nov 21, 2013.
Fuzziness is all
- Sep 07, 2013.
Simple thoughts on religion
- Jun 20, 2012.
What to believe?
- May 17, 2012.
Zeno's Paradox? Not so much
- Mar 11, 2012.
Swerving into modernity
- Oct 13, 2010.
Cartesian dualism is driving me crazy
- Oct 13, 2010.
Descartes made easy
- Sep 12, 2010.
Hope against hope: Immortality and illusion
- Sep 05, 2010.
Philosophy and wine, or modern critical theory for the (inebriated) million
- Aug 26, 2010.
Mother Teresa's advice
- Aug 10, 2010.
Burt Ferguson Remembered: words, words, words
- Jul 28, 2010.
Martin Gardner - Thanks for many hours of delight
- Sep 22, 2014.
Religion
- Apr 24, 2020.
Wide of the Mark
- Dec 21, 2017.
Reforming progress
- Dec 11, 2017.
Apocalyptic politics
- Feb 27, 2017.
Evolution + Intelligent Design = 42
- Oct 22, 2014.
Halting steps to soul freedom
- Sep 05, 2014.
The capacious heart of Marilynne Robinson
- Aug 10, 2014.
Paul, simply
- Feb 22, 2014.
The origins of modern society
- Feb 02, 2014.
My favorite inquisitor
- Dec 30, 2013.
Convivencia is a state of mind
- Dec 16, 2013.
To the power of love
- Dec 05, 2013.
To the Hebrew congregation in Newport Rhode Island
- Oct 15, 2013.
Can religion and science be reconciled?
- Sep 08, 2013.
The ghost of Schaeffer past
- Sep 07, 2013.
Simple thoughts on religion
- May 06, 2013.
Hearts and minds
- Jun 20, 2012.
What to believe?
- May 16, 2012.
The Bible Tells Me So, continued (3)
- May 11, 2012.
The Bible Tells Me So, continued
- May 02, 2012.
The Bible tells me so
- Apr 08, 2012.
Reasoning with Thomas Paine
- Mar 20, 2012.
Jesus, simply
- Mar 14, 2012.
Is religious tolerance religious freedom?
- Jan 09, 2012.
Absolute truth is a tough nut
- Nov 15, 2010.
Wandering Mennonites
- Sep 12, 2010.
Hope against hope: Immortality and illusion
- Jul 25, 2010.
The Mosque near Ground Zero, continued - Britt Towery
- Jul 25, 2010.
The Mosque near Ground Zero, continued - Leonard Pitts
- Jul 22, 2010.
The Mosque near Ground Zero - Uniting Americans Against Terrorism
- Jul 19, 2010.
The Bard of Wasilla
- Jan 15, 2010.
Modern Jeremiad
- Jan 14, 2010.
Abiogenesis or Creation?
- Jan 01, 2010.
The goriest story ever told
- Apr 24, 2020.
Science
- Apr 29, 2020.
Honest Jim
- Apr 24, 2020.
Wide of the Mark
- Mar 27, 2020.
Gamow on Gravity
- Mar 25, 2020.
The Dark Lady of DNA
- Aug 19, 2019.
Short and sweet
- Apr 03, 2019.
The moons of Jupiter
- Jan 05, 2019.
Entropy is so simple
- Nov 30, 2018.
Pandora has many boxes
- Jun 27, 2018.
A Finch in Time
- Jan 07, 2018.
Too simply pure
- Mar 14, 2017.
Are there Laws of Medicine?
- Feb 27, 2017.
Evolution + Intelligent Design = 42
- Oct 01, 2016.
Has Lamarckism been revived?
- Aug 05, 2015.
Large Scale Genomics in Beijing
- Apr 18, 2015.
Evolutionary zinger: Bats, moths and mites
- Apr 14, 2015.
Evolutionary zinger: Ants and acacia trees
- Dec 10, 2014.
The physical sublety of life
- Oct 31, 2014.
Of ovules and ovaries
- Jun 05, 2014.
The Origins of Modern Science
- Feb 09, 2014.
The many ways of misusing quantum physics
- Feb 07, 2014.
Is the selfish gene dead?
- Jan 03, 2014.
Darwin's endless forms most beautiful
- Dec 16, 2013.
In celebration of curiosity
- Nov 21, 2013.
Fuzziness is all
- Oct 15, 2013.
Can religion and science be reconciled?
- Sep 18, 2013.
Humbled again by particle physics
- Jun 20, 2012.
What to believe?
- May 17, 2012.
Zeno's Paradox? Not so much
- Mar 31, 2012.
Sleepwalking amid new ideas
- Jan 09, 2012.
Absolute truth is a tough nut
- Jan 01, 2011.
What is science? Maybe not what you think it is . . .
- Nov 21, 2010.
Taking fundamental science personally
- Oct 12, 2010.
Plants talk, too!
- Oct 12, 2010.
Parascience: Fair - or not
- Sep 22, 2010.
Evo devo: where a little means a lot
- Sep 17, 2010.
Thanks to my favorite professor, Dr. Kenneth Krane
- Aug 12, 2010.
haiku
- Aug 03, 2010.
In the mood for a sweet scientific joke? Biology meets chemistry
- Jul 28, 2010.
Martin Gardner - Thanks for many hours of delight
- Jul 15, 2010.
Our vital Microbiome: bacteria cure diseases too!
- Jun 12, 2010.
"Superman violates the laws of physics!" (I will never live that down.)
- May 22, 2010.
Craig Venter is utterly amazing!
- Jan 15, 2010.
Modern Jeremiad
- Jan 14, 2010.
Abiogenesis or Creation?
- Dec 29, 2009.
Bacteria talk to each other ... new approach to antibiotics?
- Apr 29, 2020.
Technology
- Nov 24, 2012.
Moving inexorably to the Kindle
- Nov 18, 2012.
The superweed and GMO crops
- Dec 24, 2011.
The Genius of Apple
- May 10, 2011.
The Internet Filter - thanks, TED
- Jul 13, 2010.
Toyota Prius's not so "sudden acceleration"
- Nov 24, 2012.
Art
- Nov 02, 2014.
Did Vermeer do it with mirrors?
- Oct 07, 2014.
Resident artist gallery
- Oct 07, 2014.
Resident artist
- Nov 02, 2014.
Films
- Dec 26, 2017.
Diner: A movie that never gets old
- Dec 14, 2017.
Band of Brothers: A movie that never gets old
- Mar 22, 2017.
Is truculence alienation?
- Feb 27, 2015.
Broadway Danny Rose: A movie that never gets old
- Nov 02, 2014.
Did Vermeer do it with mirrors?
- Apr 26, 2014.
Days of Our Lives has an opening on their writing staff
- Mar 17, 2014.
Movies that never seem to get old
- Feb 09, 2014.
Watching Woody Allen movies - or not
- Jan 15, 2014.
Get Shorty: A movie that never gets old
- Nov 29, 2013.
The Incredibles: A movie that never gets old
- Nov 16, 2013.
Dumb and Dumber: A movie that never gets old
- Oct 15, 2013.
One Two Three: A movie that never gets old
- May 14, 2013.
Ben-Hur: A movie that never gets old
- Mar 11, 2013.
The Jerk: A movie that never gets old
- Jan 20, 2013.
Bicycle dreams?
- May 01, 2012.
Fargo: A movie that never gets old
- Feb 07, 2012.
Auntie Mame: A movie that never gets old
- Aug 05, 2011.
Moonstruck: A movie that never gets old
- Jul 01, 2011.
Nobody's Fool: A movie that never gets old
- Jun 20, 2011.
Arthur: A movie that never gets old
- Feb 27, 2011.
How to tell a story in 4 minutes, with no words
- May 17, 2010.
Too pacific
- Jan 01, 2010.
The goriest story ever told
- Dec 26, 2017.
History
- Mar 25, 2020.
The Dark Lady of DNA
- Oct 27, 2019.
fin de siècle German optimism
- Jun 23, 2016.
The smartest Nazi
- Nov 06, 2015.
Napoleon
- Feb 15, 2015.
Trent: Too little, too late
- Dec 10, 2014.
The physical sublety of life
- Sep 01, 2014.
Why read history?
- Jun 05, 2014.
The Origins of Modern Science
- Feb 22, 2014.
The origins of modern society
- Dec 30, 2013.
Convivencia is a state of mind
- Dec 05, 2013.
To the Hebrew congregation in Newport Rhode Island
- Sep 27, 2013.
I, Benvenuto Cellini
- Sep 18, 2013.
Humbled again by particle physics
- Sep 08, 2013.
The ghost of Schaeffer past
- May 14, 2012.
Voltaire is a sharp kick in the pants
- Apr 16, 2012.
Jefferson's legacy
- Apr 08, 2012.
Reasoning with Thomas Paine
- Mar 31, 2012.
Sleepwalking amid new ideas
- Mar 24, 2012.
Slavery was the First Cause of the Civil War
- Mar 14, 2012.
Is religious tolerance religious freedom?
- Mar 11, 2012.
Swerving into modernity
- Dec 24, 2011.
The Genius of Apple
- Sep 11, 2011.
Oregon loves New York: memories of 9/11
- Apr 10, 2011.
Whitewashing the most peculiar institution:
a Lost Cause - Apr 05, 2011.
Here's the Thing about equal rights
- Feb 20, 2011.
You can't go home again . . . to Husterhöh Kaserne
- Dec 19, 2010.
Unforgettable, complete Holocaust story
- Oct 22, 2010.
Storming the Bastille, then laundry
- May 17, 2010.
Too pacific
- Jan 24, 2010.
Doc Holliday's story
- Mar 25, 2020.
Literature
- Mar 30, 2019.
Weebcentral Library
- Mar 18, 2015.
A good man cannot be found
- Mar 05, 2015.
Heart out of darkness
- Sep 15, 2014.
Candide in Maryland
- Jul 07, 2014.
The burden of combat
- Mar 02, 2014.
Nightmares in L.A.
- Feb 09, 2014.
The heart of the orchard
- Sep 27, 2013.
I, Benvenuto Cellini
- May 14, 2012.
Voltaire is a sharp kick in the pants
- Apr 28, 2012.
Can precision in writing be attained?
- Apr 16, 2012.
Jefferson's legacy
- Mar 14, 2012.
Is religious tolerance religious freedom?
- Mar 11, 2012.
Swerving into modernity
- Mar 04, 2012.
Imagination nonpareil
- Feb 29, 2012.
Lizbet Salander, meet Inspector Maigret
- Feb 24, 2012.
The secret world sharply rendered
- Jan 11, 2012.
(Post?) Modern tale of mortality
- May 19, 2011.
The art of writing? Just get started
- Dec 19, 2010.
Unforgettable, complete Holocaust story
- Nov 21, 2010.
Taking fundamental science personally
- Nov 15, 2010.
Wandering Mennonites
- Nov 02, 2010.
Totalitarian Zeitgeist
- Oct 22, 2010.
Storming the Bastille, then laundry
- Oct 20, 2010.
Teach for America
- Sep 28, 2010.
Cynicism of the highest order
- Sep 12, 2010.
"Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him."
- Mar 30, 2019.
Music
- Jan 06, 2025.
Music man
- Jul 15, 2023.
The joy of making music
- Nov 03, 2016.
American Soul
- Oct 19, 2014.
If I ruled the world
- Apr 06, 2014.
Celia's Lullaby
- Jul 28, 2013.
Das echte Lied der Alpenkräuter
- Apr 10, 2011.
Virtual Choir 2.0: Eric Whitacre and 2,052 singers!
- Mar 05, 2011.
Carole King's Tapestry, still in my heart
- Jun 01, 2010.
Listen to an Internet choir: lush!
- Jan 06, 2025.
Essays
- Apr 03, 2019.
The moons of Jupiter
- Jan 20, 2017.
Citizenship: Making sense of hysteria
- Sep 22, 2014.
Life, education, and life-long learning
- Sep 05, 2014.
The capacious heart of Marilynne Robinson
- Nov 21, 2013.
Fuzziness is all
- Oct 15, 2013.
Can religion and science be reconciled?
- Jan 16, 2013.
How should we then live?
- Jan 15, 2013.
Absolutely relative
- Jan 14, 2013.
Christianity good, secularism bad
- Jan 13, 2013.
The good old days of Christendom
- Nov 18, 2012.
The superweed and GMO crops
- Jun 20, 2012.
What to believe?
- May 17, 2012.
Zeno's Paradox? Not so much
- Apr 28, 2012.
Can precision in writing be attained?
- Apr 16, 2012.
Jefferson's legacy
- Apr 06, 2012.
There but for the grace of God goes ... Ayn Rand?
- May 19, 2011.
The art of writing? Just get started
- Apr 10, 2011.
Whitewashing the most peculiar institution:
a Lost Cause - Apr 05, 2011.
Here's the Thing about equal rights
- Nov 30, 2010.
Recasting the American Dream
- Oct 12, 2010.
Parascience: Fair - or not
- Sep 12, 2010.
Hope against hope: Immortality and illusion
- Sep 05, 2010.
Philosophy and wine, or modern critical theory for the (inebriated) million
- Aug 01, 2010.
Healthcare and the last days - Letting go
- Jul 18, 2010.
Iraq as a Failed Anti-Terrorism Policy
- Jan 15, 2010.
Modern Jeremiad
- Apr 03, 2019.
Memoirs
- Jan 06, 2025.
Music man
- Feb 12, 2024.
Remembering my Dad
- Jan 03, 2024.
A Mighty Carpenter
- Jul 15, 2023.
The joy of making music
- Apr 21, 2019.
Touring with Ted
- Jan 27, 2018.
So Long, Steve
- May 07, 2015.
At play with Uncle Ron
- Mar 02, 2015.
Memories of Shelby Ferguson
- Oct 31, 2014.
Of ovules and ovaries
- Sep 06, 2014.
Milestones of our courtship
- Jul 17, 2014.
La main gauche est maladroit
- Apr 06, 2014.
Celia's Lullaby
- Mar 30, 2014.
Paris before the age of parkour
- Dec 12, 2013.
Home brewing: Yeast is your friend
- Dec 09, 2013.
Would you let your child play football?
- Aug 25, 2013.
Glenn Jaeger, in Memoriam
- Jul 28, 2013.
Das echte Lied der Alpenkräuter
- Sep 15, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 7 from Bly - last day
- Sep 14, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 6 from Klamath Falls
- Sep 14, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 5 from Ashland
- Sep 13, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 4 from Ashland
- Sep 12, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 3 from Crater Lake!
- Sep 11, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 2 from Fort Klamath
- Sep 09, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 1 from Silver Lake
- Sep 08, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal: Day 0 from Bly
- Aug 26, 2012.
Doctor Dad ... Irreplaceable
- Sep 11, 2011.
Oregon loves New York: memories of 9/11
- Apr 05, 2011.
Here's the Thing about equal rights
- Mar 20, 2011.
Chess tournament etiquette: Performance art?
- Mar 05, 2011.
Carole King's Tapestry, still in my heart
- Feb 20, 2011.
You can't go home again . . . to Husterhöh Kaserne
- Feb 16, 2011.
Memories of Ann Williams
- Sep 05, 2010.
Philosophy and wine, or modern critical theory for the (inebriated) million
- Aug 26, 2010.
Louise Watson - In Memoriam
- Aug 10, 2010.
Burt Ferguson Remembered: passions
- Aug 10, 2010.
Burt Ferguson Remembered: words, words, words
- Aug 10, 2010.
Burt Ferguson Remembered: WWII
- Aug 10, 2010.
Burt Ferguson Remembered: early life
- Aug 07, 2010.
Burt Ferguson: in memoriam
- Jan 06, 2025.
Observations
- Jan 02, 2020.
The End of Faith?
- Jul 13, 2019.
Getting Over the Hump
- Mar 22, 2018.
Supporting Law Enforcement
- Feb 26, 2018.
Dominion or co-existence?
- Dec 22, 2017.
What is enlightenment?
- Dec 11, 2017.
Apocalyptic politics
- Sep 26, 2017.
With liberty and justice for all
- Nov 03, 2016.
American Soul
- Oct 18, 2016.
Crude, Rude, and Impolite
- Oct 09, 2016.
The Law of Political Scruples
- Sep 18, 2016.
Looking back at O. J.
- Aug 27, 2016.
Is Cuba an exemplar of U. S. foreign policy?
- Jul 14, 2016.
Political epigrams
- Apr 30, 2016.
There is "spin", and there is bearing false witness
- Aug 05, 2015.
Large Scale Genomics in Beijing
- Jul 04, 2015.
Is the Lost Cause finally getting lost?
- Nov 15, 2014.
The Sylmar Scribbler gets a new name
- Nov 01, 2014.
The Last Kingdom
- Oct 19, 2014.
If I ruled the world
- Sep 01, 2014.
Why read history?
- Jul 03, 2014.
World cup philosophy
- Apr 22, 2014.
Punctuated equilibrium
- Apr 10, 2014.
Vox de intellectu - the voice of understanding
- Feb 09, 2014.
Watching Woody Allen movies - or not
- Feb 09, 2014.
The many ways of misusing quantum physics
- Jan 13, 2014.
Quelle est la quenelle?
- Jan 08, 2014.
The Era of Open Information
- Jan 03, 2014.
Darwin's endless forms most beautiful
- Dec 16, 2013.
To the power of love
- Dec 16, 2013.
In celebration of curiosity
- Dec 08, 2013.
False confession? How is that possible?
- Dec 05, 2013.
To the Hebrew congregation in Newport Rhode Island
- Nov 03, 2013.
AVID teacher
- Sep 07, 2013.
Simple thoughts on religion
- Jul 26, 2013.
Knives? Guns? Or Disarm?
- Jun 18, 2013.
Opa welcomes Maiella!
- Oct 03, 2012.
Stepping back from blind partisanship
- Jul 08, 2012.
Celebrating Frog - street jokester of Eugene
- May 16, 2012.
The Bible Tells Me So, continued (3)
- May 11, 2012.
The Bible Tells Me So, continued
- May 08, 2012.
Grandbabies!
- May 02, 2012.
The Bible tells me so
- Feb 18, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012!
- May 10, 2011.
The Internet Filter - thanks, TED
- Apr 10, 2011.
Virtual Choir 2.0: Eric Whitacre and 2,052 singers!
- Jan 19, 2011.
How did we get ourselves into this terrible financial mess?
- Jan 01, 2011.
What is science? Maybe not what you think it is . . .
- Dec 02, 2010.
Macroeconomics, the rap version
- Oct 13, 2010.
Cartesian dualism is driving me crazy
- Oct 13, 2010.
Descartes made easy
- Oct 12, 2010.
Plants talk, too!
- Sep 28, 2010.
I hear America singing
- Sep 22, 2010.
Evo devo: where a little means a lot
- Sep 12, 2010.
"Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him."
- Sep 12, 2010.
Resident physicians: Too tired, or what?
- Aug 26, 2010.
The promise of new life
- Aug 26, 2010.
Mother Teresa's advice
- Aug 03, 2010.
In the mood for a sweet scientific joke? Biology meets chemistry
- Jul 25, 2010.
The Mosque near Ground Zero, continued - Britt Towery
- Jul 25, 2010.
The Mosque near Ground Zero, continued - Leonard Pitts
- Jul 22, 2010.
The Mosque near Ground Zero - Uniting Americans Against Terrorism
- Jul 19, 2010.
The Bard of Wasilla
- Jul 15, 2010.
Our vital Microbiome: bacteria cure diseases too!
- Jul 13, 2010.
Toyota Prius's not so "sudden acceleration"
- Jul 06, 2010.
Examining race and innocence
- Jul 05, 2010.
Is the International Baccelaureate program anti-American?
- Jul 03, 2010.
Watch USA v England . . . in Lego-motion!
- Jul 01, 2010.
The bigotry of "judicial activism"
- Jun 25, 2010.
David Brooks over-reacts to McChrystal's firing
- Jun 18, 2010.
Congratulations to Dr. Jon! Woohoo!
- Jun 12, 2010.
"Superman violates the laws of physics!" (I will never live that down.)
- Jun 01, 2010.
Listen to an Internet choir: lush!
- May 22, 2010.
Craig Venter is utterly amazing!
- Feb 23, 2010.
Waving the flag for the right reasons
- Jan 25, 2010.
Cheating on a metaphysics exam
- Jan 23, 2010.
The wisdom of Mark Twain
- Jan 14, 2010.
Abiogenesis or Creation?
- Dec 29, 2009.
Bacteria talk to each other ... new approach to antibiotics?
- Jan 02, 2020.
Poetry
- Jan 21, 2021.
Our Way Forward
- Apr 14, 2017.
I shall to sleep
- Mar 18, 2015.
Breathing
- Oct 14, 2013.
Unrequited feast
- Jun 16, 2011.
Evensong
- Sep 28, 2010.
I hear America singing
- Sep 14, 2010.
Unrequited feast
- Aug 16, 2010.
Evensong
- Aug 13, 2010.
haiku
- Aug 13, 2010.
haiku
- Aug 12, 2010.
haiku
- Aug 12, 2010.
haiku
- Jan 21, 2021.
Reviews
- Jun 01, 2020.
Cross the Great Divide
- Apr 29, 2020.
Honest Jim
- Apr 24, 2020.
Wide of the Mark
- Mar 27, 2020.
Gamow on Gravity
- Mar 25, 2020.
The Dark Lady of DNA
- Feb 04, 2020.
Augustine redux
- Oct 27, 2019.
fin de siècle German optimism
- Aug 19, 2019.
Short and sweet
- May 30, 2019.
Sprinting down the Colorado
- Feb 01, 2019.
Visualizing Relativity
- Jan 05, 2019.
Entropy is so simple
- Nov 30, 2018.
Pandora has many boxes
- Nov 19, 2018.
Persistent kindness
- Nov 16, 2018.
Celebrating reading
- Nov 02, 2018.
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun
- Jun 27, 2018.
A Finch in Time
- Mar 26, 2018.
Ordinary Overuse of Genius
- Feb 12, 2018.
The Heart of Tolstoy
- Feb 11, 2018.
The Department of Public Works
- Feb 08, 2018.
The lonely warrior
- Jan 31, 2018.
Ever England
- Jan 14, 2018.
Laconic Love
- Jan 07, 2018.
Too simply pure
- Dec 26, 2017.
Diner: A movie that never gets old
- Dec 21, 2017.
Reforming progress
- Dec 14, 2017.
Band of Brothers: A movie that never gets old
- Oct 15, 2017.
The gestation of Christianity
- Oct 09, 2017.
Evolution and Truth
- Aug 07, 2017.
Kafka comes to Argentina
- Mar 22, 2017.
Is truculence alienation?
- Mar 15, 2017.
Shut Up, Legs!
- Mar 14, 2017.
Are there Laws of Medicine?
- Mar 06, 2017.
Along the Way with Britt Towery
- Sep 27, 2016.
The Naturalist
- Sep 18, 2016.
Looking back at O. J.
- Jul 05, 2016.
Marooned on Mars
- Jun 23, 2016.
The smartest Nazi
- Dec 11, 2015.
Stuck at twelve
- Nov 06, 2015.
Napoleon
- Jul 04, 2015.
Is the Lost Cause finally getting lost?
- Mar 18, 2015.
A good man cannot be found
- Mar 05, 2015.
Heart out of darkness
- Feb 27, 2015.
Broadway Danny Rose: A movie that never gets old
- Feb 15, 2015.
Trent: Too little, too late
- Dec 10, 2014.
The physical sublety of life
- Dec 09, 2014.
Hieronymus Bosch in L.A.
- Nov 29, 2014.
So slender a thread
- Nov 02, 2014.
Did Vermeer do it with mirrors?
- Oct 31, 2014.
Of ovules and ovaries
- Oct 22, 2014.
Halting steps to soul freedom
- Sep 15, 2014.
Candide in Maryland
- Sep 05, 2014.
The capacious heart of Marilynne Robinson
- Aug 10, 2014.
Paul, simply
- Jul 07, 2014.
The burden of combat
- Jun 05, 2014.
The Origins of Modern Science
- Apr 26, 2014.
Days of Our Lives has an opening on their writing staff
- Mar 17, 2014.
Movies that never seem to get old
- Mar 02, 2014.
Nightmares in L.A.
- Feb 22, 2014.
The origins of modern society
- Feb 09, 2014.
The heart of the orchard
- Feb 07, 2014.
Is the selfish gene dead?
- Feb 02, 2014.
My favorite inquisitor
- Jan 15, 2014.
Get Shorty: A movie that never gets old
- Dec 30, 2013.
Convivencia is a state of mind
- Nov 29, 2013.
The Incredibles: A movie that never gets old
- Nov 16, 2013.
Dumb and Dumber: A movie that never gets old
- Oct 15, 2013.
One Two Three: A movie that never gets old
- Sep 27, 2013.
I, Benvenuto Cellini
- Sep 18, 2013.
Humbled again by particle physics
- Sep 08, 2013.
The ghost of Schaeffer past
- Aug 26, 2013.
The War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration
- May 14, 2013.
Ben-Hur: A movie that never gets old
- May 06, 2013.
Hearts and minds
- Mar 11, 2013.
The Jerk: A movie that never gets old
- Jan 20, 2013.
Bicycle dreams?
- Jan 16, 2013.
How should we then live?
- Jan 15, 2013.
Absolutely relative
- Jan 14, 2013.
Christianity good, secularism bad
- Jan 13, 2013.
The good old days of Christendom
- Nov 24, 2012.
Moving inexorably to the Kindle
- May 14, 2012.
Voltaire is a sharp kick in the pants
- May 01, 2012.
Fargo: A movie that never gets old
- Apr 16, 2012.
Jefferson's legacy
- Apr 08, 2012.
Reasoning with Thomas Paine
- Apr 06, 2012.
There but for the grace of God goes ... Ayn Rand?
- Mar 31, 2012.
Sleepwalking amid new ideas
- Mar 24, 2012.
Slavery was the First Cause of the Civil War
- Mar 20, 2012.
Jesus, simply
- Mar 14, 2012.
Is religious tolerance religious freedom?
- Mar 11, 2012.
Swerving into modernity
- Mar 04, 2012.
Imagination nonpareil
- Feb 29, 2012.
Lizbet Salander, meet Inspector Maigret
- Feb 24, 2012.
The secret world sharply rendered
- Feb 07, 2012.
Auntie Mame: A movie that never gets old
- Jan 11, 2012.
(Post?) Modern tale of mortality
- Jan 09, 2012.
Absolute truth is a tough nut
- Dec 24, 2011.
The Genius of Apple
- Aug 05, 2011.
Moonstruck: A movie that never gets old
- Jul 01, 2011.
Nobody's Fool: A movie that never gets old
- Jun 20, 2011.
Arthur: A movie that never gets old
- Feb 27, 2011.
How to tell a story in 4 minutes, with no words
- Dec 19, 2010.
Unforgettable, complete Holocaust story
- Nov 21, 2010.
Taking fundamental science personally
- Nov 15, 2010.
Wandering Mennonites
- Nov 02, 2010.
Totalitarian Zeitgeist
- Oct 22, 2010.
Storming the Bastille, then laundry
- Oct 20, 2010.
Teach for America
- Oct 12, 2010.
Parascience: Fair - or not
- Sep 28, 2010.
Cynicism of the highest order
- Jul 28, 2010.
Martin Gardner - Thanks for many hours of delight
- May 17, 2010.
Too pacific
- Mar 16, 2010.
The historic Cheney Vice-Presidency
- Feb 01, 2010.
Candid, loving portrait of Dad
- Jan 24, 2010.
Doc Holliday's story
- Jan 15, 2010.
Modern Jeremiad
- Jan 01, 2010.
The goriest story ever told
- Jun 01, 2020.
Education
- Apr 18, 2015.
Evolutionary zinger: Bats, moths and mites
- Apr 14, 2015.
Evolutionary zinger: Ants and acacia trees
- Sep 22, 2014.
Life, education, and life-long learning
- Apr 28, 2012.
Can precision in writing be attained?
- May 19, 2011.
The art of writing? Just get started
- Feb 16, 2011.
Memories of Ann Williams
- Oct 20, 2010.
Teach for America
- Sep 17, 2010.
Thanks to my favorite professor, Dr. Kenneth Krane
- Jul 05, 2010.
Is the International Baccelaureate program anti-American?
- Apr 18, 2015.
Family
- Jan 27, 2018.
So Long, Steve
- May 07, 2015.
At play with Uncle Ron
- Sep 06, 2014.
Milestones of our courtship
- Apr 06, 2014.
Celia's Lullaby
- Dec 12, 2013.
Home brewing: Yeast is your friend
- Aug 25, 2013.
Glenn Jaeger, in Memoriam
- Jul 28, 2013.
Das echte Lied der Alpenkräuter
- Jun 18, 2013.
Opa welcomes Maiella!
- Aug 26, 2012.
Doctor Dad ... Irreplaceable
- May 08, 2012.
Grandbabies!
- Sep 11, 2011.
Oregon loves New York: memories of 9/11
- Mar 20, 2011.
Chess tournament etiquette: Performance art?
- Sep 12, 2010.
Resident physicians: Too tired, or what?
- Aug 26, 2010.
Louise Watson - In Memoriam
- Aug 26, 2010.
The promise of new life
- Aug 10, 2010.
Burt Ferguson Remembered: passions
- Aug 10, 2010.
Burt Ferguson Remembered: words, words, words
- Aug 10, 2010.
Burt Ferguson Remembered: WWII
- Aug 10, 2010.
Burt Ferguson Remembered: early life
- Aug 07, 2010.
Burt Ferguson: in memoriam
- Jun 18, 2010.
Congratulations to Dr. Jon! Woohoo!
- Jan 27, 2018.
Healthcare
- Sep 12, 2010.
Resident physicians: Too tired, or what?
- Aug 01, 2010.
Healthcare and the last days - Letting go
- Sep 12, 2010.
Humor
- Feb 27, 2015.
Broadway Danny Rose: A movie that never gets old
- Jul 17, 2014.
La main gauche est maladroit
- Jul 03, 2014.
World cup philosophy
- Apr 22, 2014.
Punctuated equilibrium
- Jan 15, 2014.
Get Shorty: A movie that never gets old
- Nov 29, 2013.
The Incredibles: A movie that never gets old
- Nov 16, 2013.
Dumb and Dumber: A movie that never gets old
- Oct 15, 2013.
One Two Three: A movie that never gets old
- Mar 11, 2013.
The Jerk: A movie that never gets old
- Jul 08, 2012.
Celebrating Frog - street jokester of Eugene
- May 01, 2012.
Fargo: A movie that never gets old
- Feb 07, 2012.
Auntie Mame: A movie that never gets old
- Aug 05, 2011.
Moonstruck: A movie that never gets old
- Jul 01, 2011.
Nobody's Fool: A movie that never gets old
- Jun 20, 2011.
Arthur: A movie that never gets old
- Dec 02, 2010.
Macroeconomics, the rap version
- Jun 12, 2010.
"Superman violates the laws of physics!" (I will never live that down.)
- Feb 01, 2010.
Candid, loving portrait of Dad
- Jan 25, 2010.
Cheating on a metaphysics exam
- Jan 23, 2010.
The wisdom of Mark Twain
- Feb 27, 2015.
Modern-Life
- Apr 10, 2014.
Vox de intellectu - the voice of understanding
- Jan 08, 2014.
The Era of Open Information
- May 16, 2012.
The Bible Tells Me So, continued (3)
- May 11, 2012.
The Bible Tells Me So, continued
- May 02, 2012.
The Bible tells me so
- Jul 06, 2010.
Examining race and innocence
- Jul 05, 2010.
Is the International Baccelaureate program anti-American?
- Feb 23, 2010.
Waving the flag for the right reasons
- Apr 10, 2014.
Politics-Government
- Mar 22, 2018.
Supporting Law Enforcement
- Dec 11, 2017.
Apocalyptic politics
- Jan 20, 2017.
Citizenship: Making sense of hysteria
- Oct 18, 2016.
Crude, Rude, and Impolite
- Oct 09, 2016.
The Law of Political Scruples
- Jul 14, 2016.
Political epigrams
- Apr 30, 2016.
There is "spin", and there is bearing false witness
- Nov 29, 2014.
So slender a thread
- Oct 22, 2014.
Halting steps to soul freedom
- Dec 08, 2013.
False confession? How is that possible?
- Aug 26, 2013.
The War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration
- Jul 26, 2013.
Knives? Guns? Or Disarm?
- May 06, 2013.
Hearts and minds
- Jan 16, 2013.
How should we then live?
- Jan 15, 2013.
Absolutely relative
- Jan 14, 2013.
Christianity good, secularism bad
- Jan 13, 2013.
The good old days of Christendom
- Nov 18, 2012.
The superweed and GMO crops
- Oct 03, 2012.
Stepping back from blind partisanship
- Apr 06, 2012.
There but for the grace of God goes ... Ayn Rand?
- Jan 19, 2011.
How did we get ourselves into this terrible financial mess?
- Nov 30, 2010.
Recasting the American Dream
- Jul 25, 2010.
The Mosque near Ground Zero, continued - Britt Towery
- Jul 25, 2010.
The Mosque near Ground Zero, continued - Leonard Pitts
- Jul 22, 2010.
The Mosque near Ground Zero - Uniting Americans Against Terrorism
- Jul 19, 2010.
The Bard of Wasilla
- Jul 18, 2010.
Iraq as a Failed Anti-Terrorism Policy
- Jul 01, 2010.
The bigotry of "judicial activism"
- Jun 25, 2010.
David Brooks over-reacts to McChrystal's firing
- Mar 16, 2010.
The historic Cheney Vice-Presidency
- Mar 22, 2018.
Sports-Hobbies
- Nov 10, 2022.
Whitewater Rafting Trip Spreadsheet
- Apr 21, 2019.
Touring with Ted
- Dec 12, 2013.
Home brewing: Yeast is your friend
- Dec 09, 2013.
Would you let your child play football?
- Jan 20, 2013.
Bicycle dreams?
- Sep 15, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 7 from Bly - last day
- Sep 14, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 6 from Klamath Falls
- Sep 14, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 5 from Ashland
- Sep 13, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 4 from Ashland
- Sep 12, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 3 from Crater Lake!
- Sep 11, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 2 from Fort Klamath
- Sep 09, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 1 from Silver Lake
- Sep 08, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal: Day 0 from Bly
- Feb 18, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012!
- Jul 03, 2010.
Watch USA v England . . . in Lego-motion!
- Nov 10, 2022.
Book Reviews
- Jan 21, 2021.
Our Way Forward
- Jun 01, 2020.
Cross the Great Divide
- Apr 29, 2020.
Honest Jim
- Apr 24, 2020.
Wide of the Mark
- Mar 27, 2020.
Gamow on Gravity
- Mar 25, 2020.
The Dark Lady of DNA
- Feb 04, 2020.
Augustine redux
- Oct 27, 2019.
fin de siècle German optimism
- Aug 19, 2019.
Short and sweet
- May 30, 2019.
Sprinting down the Colorado
- Feb 01, 2019.
Visualizing Relativity
- Jan 05, 2019.
Entropy is so simple
- Nov 30, 2018.
Pandora has many boxes
- Nov 19, 2018.
Persistent kindness
- Nov 16, 2018.
Celebrating reading
- Nov 02, 2018.
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun
- Jun 27, 2018.
A Finch in Time
- Mar 26, 2018.
Ordinary Overuse of Genius
- Feb 12, 2018.
The Heart of Tolstoy
- Feb 11, 2018.
The Department of Public Works
- Feb 08, 2018.
The lonely warrior
- Jan 31, 2018.
Ever England
- Jan 14, 2018.
Laconic Love
- Jan 07, 2018.
Too simply pure
- Oct 15, 2017.
The gestation of Christianity
- Oct 09, 2017.
Evolution and Truth
- Aug 07, 2017.
Kafka comes to Argentina
- Mar 15, 2017.
Shut Up, Legs!
- Mar 14, 2017.
Are there Laws of Medicine?
- Mar 06, 2017.
Along the Way with Britt Towery
- Sep 27, 2016.
The Naturalist
- Jul 05, 2016.
Marooned on Mars
- Jun 23, 2016.
The smartest Nazi
- Dec 11, 2015.
Stuck at twelve
- Nov 06, 2015.
Napoleon
- Mar 18, 2015.
A good man cannot be found
- Mar 05, 2015.
Heart out of darkness
- Feb 15, 2015.
Trent: Too little, too late
- Dec 10, 2014.
The physical sublety of life
- Dec 09, 2014.
Hieronymus Bosch in L.A.
- Nov 29, 2014.
So slender a thread
- Nov 02, 2014.
Did Vermeer do it with mirrors?
- Nov 01, 2014.
The Last Kingdom
- Oct 31, 2014.
Of ovules and ovaries
- Oct 22, 2014.
Halting steps to soul freedom
- Sep 15, 2014.
Candide in Maryland
- Sep 05, 2014.
The capacious heart of Marilynne Robinson
- Aug 10, 2014.
Paul, simply
- Jul 07, 2014.
The burden of combat
- Jun 05, 2014.
The Origins of Modern Science
- Mar 02, 2014.
Nightmares in L.A.
- Feb 22, 2014.
The origins of modern society
- Feb 09, 2014.
The heart of the orchard
- Feb 02, 2014.
My favorite inquisitor
- Dec 30, 2013.
Convivencia is a state of mind
- Sep 27, 2013.
I, Benvenuto Cellini
- Sep 18, 2013.
Humbled again by particle physics
- Sep 08, 2013.
The ghost of Schaeffer past
- Aug 26, 2013.
The War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration
- May 06, 2013.
Hearts and minds
- Jan 16, 2013.
How should we then live?
- Jan 15, 2013.
Absolutely relative
- Jan 14, 2013.
Christianity good, secularism bad
- Jan 13, 2013.
The good old days of Christendom
- Apr 16, 2012.
Jefferson's legacy
- Apr 08, 2012.
Reasoning with Thomas Paine
- Apr 06, 2012.
There but for the grace of God goes ... Ayn Rand?
- Mar 31, 2012.
Sleepwalking amid new ideas
- Mar 24, 2012.
Slavery was the First Cause of the Civil War
- Mar 20, 2012.
Jesus, simply
- Mar 14, 2012.
Is religious tolerance religious freedom?
- Mar 11, 2012.
Swerving into modernity
- Mar 04, 2012.
Imagination nonpareil
- Feb 29, 2012.
Lizbet Salander, meet Inspector Maigret
- Feb 24, 2012.
The secret world sharply rendered
- Jan 11, 2012.
(Post?) Modern tale of mortality
- Dec 24, 2011.
The Genius of Apple
- Dec 19, 2010.
Unforgettable, complete Holocaust story
- Nov 21, 2010.
Taking fundamental science personally
- Nov 15, 2010.
Wandering Mennonites
- Nov 02, 2010.
Totalitarian Zeitgeist
- Oct 22, 2010.
Storming the Bastille, then laundry
- Oct 20, 2010.
Teach for America
- Oct 12, 2010.
Parascience: Fair - or not
- Sep 28, 2010.
Cynicism of the highest order
- May 17, 2010.
Too pacific
- Mar 16, 2010.
The historic Cheney Vice-Presidency
- Feb 01, 2010.
Candid, loving portrait of Dad
- Jan 24, 2010.
Doc Holliday's story
- Jan 15, 2010.
Modern Jeremiad
- Jan 21, 2021.
Cold war soldier memoirs
- Apr 21, 2019.
Touring with Ted
- Mar 18, 2015.
Breathing
- Mar 30, 2014.
Paris before the age of parkour
- Apr 05, 2011.
Here's the Thing about equal rights
- Mar 05, 2011.
Carole King's Tapestry, still in my heart
- Feb 20, 2011.
You can't go home again . . . to Husterhöh Kaserne
- Apr 21, 2019.
Cycle Oregon
- Sep 15, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 7 from Bly - last day
- Sep 14, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 6 from Klamath Falls
- Sep 14, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 5 from Ashland
- Sep 13, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 4 from Ashland
- Sep 12, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 3 from Crater Lake!
- Sep 11, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 2 from Fort Klamath
- Sep 09, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal Day 1 from Silver Lake
- Sep 08, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012 journal: Day 0 from Bly
- Feb 18, 2012.
Cycle Oregon 2012!
- Sep 15, 2012.
Ferguson family memoirs
- Mar 02, 2015.
Memories of Shelby Ferguson
- Oct 07, 2014.
Resident artist
- Sep 12, 2010.
Hope against hope: Immortality and illusion
- Aug 10, 2010.
Burt Ferguson Remembered: passions
- Aug 10, 2010.
Burt Ferguson Remembered: words, words, words
- Aug 10, 2010.
Burt Ferguson Remembered: WWII
- Aug 10, 2010.
Burt Ferguson Remembered: early life
- Aug 07, 2010.
Burt Ferguson: in memoriam
- Mar 02, 2015.
Jackson High School memoirs
Miscellany
- May 03, 2019.
Archives
- Nov 29, 2014.
Categories
- Oct 30, 2014.
Reading Lists
- Oct 26, 2014.
My Commonplace Book
- May 03, 2019.
Oregon State University memoirs
- Apr 18, 2015.
Evolutionary zinger: Bats, moths and mites
- Apr 14, 2015.
Evolutionary zinger: Ants and acacia trees
- Oct 31, 2014.
Of ovules and ovaries
- Sep 17, 2010.
Thanks to my favorite professor, Dr. Kenneth Krane
- Apr 18, 2015.
Popular
- Mar 25, 2020.
The Dark Lady of DNA
- Apr 18, 2015.
Evolutionary zinger: Bats, moths and mites
- Nov 02, 2014.
Did Vermeer do it with mirrors?
- Jun 05, 2014.
The Origins of Modern Science
- Nov 21, 2013.
Fuzziness is all
- Jul 28, 2013.
Das echte Lied der Alpenkräuter
- May 17, 2012.
Zeno's Paradox? Not so much
- Apr 16, 2012.
Jefferson's legacy
- Feb 20, 2011.
You can't go home again . . . to Husterhöh Kaserne
- Sep 05, 2010.
Philosophy and wine, or modern critical theory for the (inebriated) million
- Mar 25, 2020.
Wiebe family memoirs
- Jan 06, 2025.
Music man
- Feb 12, 2024.
Remembering my Dad
- Jan 03, 2024.
A Mighty Carpenter
- Jul 15, 2023.
The joy of making music
- Jan 27, 2018.
So Long, Steve
- May 07, 2015.
At play with Uncle Ron
- Oct 31, 2014.
Of ovules and ovaries
- Oct 07, 2014.
Resident artist
- Sep 06, 2014.
Milestones of our courtship
- Apr 06, 2014.
Celia's Lullaby
- Dec 12, 2013.
Home brewing: Yeast is your friend
- Nov 03, 2013.
AVID teacher
- Aug 25, 2013.
Glenn Jaeger, in Memoriam
- Jul 28, 2013.
Das echte Lied der Alpenkräuter
- Jun 18, 2013.
Opa welcomes Maiella!
- Aug 26, 2012.
Doctor Dad ... Irreplaceable
- May 17, 2012.
Zeno's Paradox? Not so much
- May 08, 2012.
Grandbabies!
- Sep 11, 2011.
Oregon loves New York: memories of 9/11
- Mar 20, 2011.
Chess tournament etiquette: Performance art?
- Sep 05, 2010.
Philosophy and wine, or modern critical theory for the (inebriated) million
- Aug 26, 2010.
The promise of new life
- Jun 18, 2010.
Congratulations to Dr. Jon! Woohoo!
- Jun 12, 2010.
"Superman violates the laws of physics!" (I will never live that down.)
- Jan 06, 2025.