We’ll never see the smallest nor largest things. There are things we’ll never, ever know. Period. Which is not to say we shouldn’t try.
And for god’s sake stop dumbing it down as the “god-particle.”
“Still don’t believe in climate change? Then you’re either deep in denial or delirious from the heat.” — Eugene Robinson #qotd
Eugene Robinson: Feeling the heat – The Washington Post
Eugene Robinson, Published: July 2The Washington Post
Still don’t believe in climate change? Then you’re either deep in denial or delirious from the heat.
The founders weren’t warriors — they were intellectuals …
Amid the noise and bellowing of the day, recall quietly that our nation was founded by the best-educated people of their day, who drew from a deep well of learning. Today, our nation’s greatest threat is ignorance and our defenders include teachers, lawyers, and judges.
As Memorial Day and Veterans Day honor fighters, Independence Day honors thinkers and planners. Think and be free. peace, mjh
10 Weird Hot Dog Facts from Fooducate
Food for thought. mjh
3. Why are sodium nitrites used in hot dogs? Hot Dog companies use them as a preservative against bacteria, but they have a carcinogenic effect… No thank you, your hot dog is not worth cancer.
Some products use celery juice as a replacement, because it is a natural way to kill bacteria.
“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.” — Bertrand Russell
True independence. mjh
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. Bertrand Russell
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 – 1970)
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The quote of the day is too long for a headline …
Speaking truth to power, but power is deaf. mjh
Pearce wrong about Little Bear firefighting efforts | NMPolitics.net
By Ellen Wedum ? 7/03/12, 9:57 am ? Commentary
Ellen Wedum
If Congressman Pearce thinks that the U.S. Forest Service should be able to respond to fires faster than on foot, he and his fellow Republicans should stop cutting the Forest Service budget.
There’s a lot of misinformation being spread about the initial efforts to contain the Little Bear fire. I have pieced this account together mostly from the online log available on the USFS website.
“Monitoring” is a totally inadequate term to describe the efforts that were made to contain the fire during the first five days.
Pearce wrong about Little Bear firefighting efforts | NMPolitics.net
Alles gute zum Geburtstag, mein lieber Hermann!
I read everything by Hesse in college, all in English, most in German. The one exception was his magnum opus, The Glass Bead Game — I just couldn’t get into it in either language. As for many, Siddhartha and Steppenwolf moved me deeply. (I can wait and I still taste the mix of blood and chocolate and see myself in shards of a broken mirror.) One can hardly imagine more different books, except for Hesse’s conflicted outsider fixation.
Everyone should think about how Hesse’s work came to mean so much decades later. We toss a stone in water and never see all the ripples. mjh
New England Weather by Archibald MacLeish | The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor
Today is the birthday of Hermann Hesse (books by this author), born in Calw, Germany, in 1877. In 1911, he took a trip to India and started studying Eastern religions, and ancient Hindu and Chinese cultures. His travels inspired his novel Siddhartha, about the early life of Gautama Buddha. It became popular among the counterculture movement of the 1960s, more than 40 years after it was published.
He said: "The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it."
New England Weather by Archibald MacLeish | The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor