thoughts, ideas, questions, and rants
There are some interesting aspects to this idea. First off, I can find plenty of information regarding more abstract ideas such as total population divided by area to create a way to see population density from a (virtual) personal perspective. This could be seen to lead towards the real personal attitudes and cultural underpayments which [...]
I’m pondering some way to present a number of links related to an initiative to build a starship within 100 years. In some ways this project resembles the 10,000 year clock, in that it has a long timeframe outside of what we would normally consider to be within the range of most specific human endeavors. [...]
It’s surprising how many seemingly undecipherable activities and perceptions we have in our day to day lives. Some are ‘big picture’ or seemingly pretentious (aesthetics, ‘what is beauty?’, et.al.), and some are rather insidious. Music is a good example. We all think we ‘know’ what it is, rhythm, harmony, melody… But we seem to never [...]
Consider what curiosity is, and how it relates to intelligence. Curiosity might not be the only exemplar of intelligence, but it is a part of personality that represents an impulsion to keep searching for things. There are many specific aspects of intelligence which people are attracted to. To be able to deal with a great [...]
You could say that this post is the start of my studies into trying to grasp the idea of infinity. Graham’s number of the largest number ever used in mathematics, and it’s magnitude is enough to cause you to pause… These are the biggest numbers in the universe By ALASDAIR WILKINS In any event, [...]
Little green men from mars have been staples in the world of Science Fiction (OK, maybe hack sci-fi…). Superficially, this idea, that we are not alone, is filled with plenty of fodder for stories. If you read any science journalism, you can see the hint of this presumption. We seem to really want to have [...]
It’s always a wonderful experience to find a great book. In realm of nonfiction, I’ve found three which fit together in some obvious and some strange ways. There should be some calendar pages spinning as I hearken back to the late 1970s. Back then I found, through a review in Psychology Today, a fascinating book [...]
The following excerpt from a Wall Street Journal article has an interesting thesis. That with the proliferation of websites, we, the readers and writers, might be forced to devalue the meaning of the words we are reading… I have some problems with this argument, in that it presents a rather nebulous premise, that we, as [...]
View the story “resources for reading Finnegans Wake” on Storify
This is a short list fo some of the resources I have amassed for my reading of James Joyce’s Ulysses
