Lazy TV Watching The other night I was watching TV, just kind of flipping around the various channels. I started to become very sleepy. I didn’t really mind what I was watching. I wasn’t quite ready to go to bed and fall asleep. I was just kind of in a very lazy mood where […]
Science and Metaphorical Resonance
Tale of Two Teachers When I was in junior high school had two science teachers. Both of them were completely different. The first guy is what you might expect a science teacher to be. A junior high school science teacher to be. He was kind of a typical doofus geek type of guy. He […]
Ancient Universal DNA
House Party I have a friend who is an exceptionally talented musician except he only plays music as a hobby. He’s actually an engineer for this really really big huge company that he joined shortly after it was founded. He kind of rose up the ranks as the company grew now he makes a ton […]
Unsustainability
All Modern Societies Are Unsustainable There are a couple of different ways to view an anthill. You can look at it as one singular organism unto itself or you could look at it as a collection of individual organisms onto themselves, all genetically programmed to support the meta-organism. You can look at a beehive […]
Get Some!
Once upon a time, there was a simple chemical. Then some lightening, or an act of God turned this simple chemical into a life form. This life form had one objective – make copies of itself. In order to do that, it had to extract resources from its environment. Of course, it wasn’t the only […]