This is the first in an occasional series about my exploration of Buddhism while riding the New York subway.
Read More »Science and Technology
What’s your ink?
It's a reminder of how much more complicated everyday living was in the past; how much you had to know.
Read More »Ecological Footprints: Our Survival Guide
As human presence on the planet continues to grow, means of curtailing our impact on the natural world become even more pressing.
Read More »Oil, China, and India
Oil...what emerging economic powers like China and India need most to ensure they keep up with the developed world
Read More »Review: Cluster & Eno
...this disc represents a unique opportunity to listen to the predecessors of so many of today's musical styles.
Read More »Surfrider Foundation Celebrity Surf Jam
The inaugural Surfrider Foundation Celebrity Surf Jam brings together stars from the world of music, film, professional surfing, and Surfrider Foundation activists from across the country on Sunday, September 11th for a friendly surfing competition in the waters off of Huntington Beach to help raise awareness of the importance and …
Read More »Censorship at Blogger.com?
I'm not blaming Google for directly censoring anybody, only that they have created the possibility for censorship.
Read More »Eminem Being Treated for Sleeping Pill Addiction
Now we know why Eminem called of his European tour a couple of days ago: today publicist Dennis Dennehy said the rapper formerly known as Marshall Mathers, 32, was “in the hospital under doctors’ care” recovering from addiction to sleeping medication. He had been due to begin the 10-date European …
Read More »Friday femmes fatales No 19
Where are all the female bloggers? Here, in my weekly top ten posts.
Read More »The Mystery of the Cambrian Mollusc-Like Thing
If you are so inclined, this mystery could be “evidence” against evolution: if scientists can’t classify a 525 million-year-old fossil (annelid? arthropod? mollusc? something else?) then why is there any reason to think it “evolved” at all, rather than having been “created” sui generis and sent on its merry way, …
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