Brian Greene is one of those people who study the universe in ways that most of the rest of us don’t even have the ability to contemplate. He is a top astro-physicist who, for over 30 years, has been considering what kind of very small stuff might be the most basic of items that […]
Archives for March 2014
The Great Divide that Science and Religion Cannot Bridge
Have you seen the new “Cosmos” yet? If not, you need to check it out. It’s based on the series that Carl Sagan developed and used to introduce a whole generation to the wonders of science back in 1980. In its reincarnated state, it is hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who, if he […]
Is Happiness Really Just a State of Mind?
When I left my office last Friday at around 6:30, it was dark, as in night-time dark. I wasn’t surprised or particularly depressed. After all, I’d been dealing with the same experience for the past four months. But something must have happened over the weekend, because when I left my office on Monday […]
On the Struggle to Survive and the Masks We Wear to Hide From Ourselves
Well we all have a face that we hide away forever; And we take it out and show ourselves when everyone has gone. -“The Stranger,” Billy Joel Know thyself. -Socrates These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken. -Bertrand Russell (at the age of […]