I was captivated by this video, posted to Facebook by a friend with whom I started college many years ago as a music major. My friend went on to become a successful composer and music professor while my life took … Read More…
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Thomas Berry, one of the foremost Christian thinkers to root his philosophy in the Earth, died yesterday at the age of 94. Born to the Appalachian hills, he became a Catholic priest of the Passionist order and then a renowned … Read More…
Environmental journalist Michael Pollan was in town this week promoting his latest book, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto. I’m in awe of people who think big without doing it in the lazy way of relying on generalizations. Pollan … Read More…
One of our local treasures, Susan Solomon, gave a presentation last night to a standing-room-only crowd at the theater of the Boulder Public Library. Susan is a National Medal of Science winner, and she cochaired the UN Intergovernmental Panel on … Read More…
My post “String theory for mere mortals” gets a mention at the Scientia Pro Publica blog carnival, hosted by Bob O’Hara on his Deep Thoughts and Silliness blog. Woo-hoo! My first blog carnival. Having just gotten addicted to blogging a … Read More…
Ten years ago when neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp published his research showing that rats laugh when you tickle them, he might have gotten laughed off the stage. Most people still thought that “sophisticated” emotions like laughter required the kind of consciousness … Read More…
I had the treat this week of attending a lecture by Brian Greene on the CU campus—another packed-to-the-gills science lecture, this one in a two-thousand-seat auditorium. Greene’s book The Elegant Universe and PBS documentary of the same name a few … Read More…