Philosophy
A friend just passed suddenly.
You know that feeling you get when you go to a ballgame and you come through the tunnel out to the stands and you can feel the electricity run through you and know its going to be loud and rowdy and fun. It was the same sensation as soon as you saw Jon in the room. Some people soak life in, others exude it, sending it out like Tesla's lost invention with a soul patch, radiating energy for everyone.
Nothing soothes loss, but I always find it comforting to remember that the great British physicist Sir James Jeans showed that the odds are that each of us has in our lungs five of the molecules of Julius Caesar's last breath. The air we breathe was the air Jon breathed and that bit of pneuma, the breath of life, will remain with us.
- Et Tu, Brute...they're Small
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- Ritual And Body
My great-uncle just passed away and yesterday was the funeral. I've never been one for ritual because it seems that the process of scripting severely limits the room for authentic spontaneous expressions of meaning. But funerals seem different. The...
- Underwater Base Jumping
What's crazier than Guillaume Néry, who decides to base jump into the deepest blue hole in the world while holding his breath, no oxygen tanks or anything? Apparently Julie Gautier, the girl who decides to film the whole thing while holding her own...
- Still Debating E=mc2
"More than one brain behind E=mc2" January 28th, 2013 SPACEDAILY Two American physicists outline the role played by Austrian physicist Friedrich Hasenohrl in establishing the proportionality between the energy (E) of a quantity of matter with its...
- Deceased--willi Dansgaard
Willi Dansgaard August 30th, 1922 to January 8th, 2011 What are the odds that we have drunk some T-Rex pee? "Willi Dansgaard Dies at 88; Read Climates in Old Ice" BY Douglas Martin January 28th, 2011 The New York Times It is said that every breath we...
Philosophy
Remembering Jon
A friend just passed suddenly.
You know that feeling you get when you go to a ballgame and you come through the tunnel out to the stands and you can feel the electricity run through you and know its going to be loud and rowdy and fun. It was the same sensation as soon as you saw Jon in the room. Some people soak life in, others exude it, sending it out like Tesla's lost invention with a soul patch, radiating energy for everyone.
Nothing soothes loss, but I always find it comforting to remember that the great British physicist Sir James Jeans showed that the odds are that each of us has in our lungs five of the molecules of Julius Caesar's last breath. The air we breathe was the air Jon breathed and that bit of pneuma, the breath of life, will remain with us.
- Et Tu, Brute...they're Small
Beware the ides of March... So, was Brutus right to participate in the assassination of Caesar? Was it for the greater good or was it an act of betrayal, or both? If Caesar was trying to usurp power that was not his to take, would that have freed Brutus...
- Ritual And Body
My great-uncle just passed away and yesterday was the funeral. I've never been one for ritual because it seems that the process of scripting severely limits the room for authentic spontaneous expressions of meaning. But funerals seem different. The...
- Underwater Base Jumping
What's crazier than Guillaume Néry, who decides to base jump into the deepest blue hole in the world while holding his breath, no oxygen tanks or anything? Apparently Julie Gautier, the girl who decides to film the whole thing while holding her own...
- Still Debating E=mc2
"More than one brain behind E=mc2" January 28th, 2013 SPACEDAILY Two American physicists outline the role played by Austrian physicist Friedrich Hasenohrl in establishing the proportionality between the energy (E) of a quantity of matter with its...
- Deceased--willi Dansgaard
Willi Dansgaard August 30th, 1922 to January 8th, 2011 What are the odds that we have drunk some T-Rex pee? "Willi Dansgaard Dies at 88; Read Climates in Old Ice" BY Douglas Martin January 28th, 2011 The New York Times It is said that every breath we...