Last week New Scientist had an article on How Novels Help Drive Social Evolution. The article reports on a study by Jonathan Gottschall and co-author Joseph Carroll at the University of Missouri, St Louis, about how “Darwin’s theories of evolution apply to literature” (I’m not putting in a link to the study since you have […]
Many times in my life I’ve found myself out of sync with my friends, companions, family members, coworkers, or what have you. Some times, I just shrug and let it go because it isn’t that important to me. Other times, I’ll stick to my point — mostly I’ll stand pat if the issue is one […]
I say “Watch the sky!” not in a The Thing or Independence Day kind of way. I’m not expecting an alien invasion any time soon. No, I’m saying it because 2009 is the International Year of Astronomy — with all sorts of events planned throughout the world. The International Year of Astronomy website has lots […]
I read today a short quote from Oscar Wilde: , “A school should be the most beautiful place in every town and village – so beautiful that the punishments for undutiful children should be that they should be debarred from going to school the following day.” I checked to see that he’d said it and […]