The Philosopher's Stone

i stumbled on a story on the huffington post  to the effect that conservatives in the hierarchy of the roman catholic church who are unhappy...

today is december 7th, 'a day that will live in infamy' as those of my generation came to know it.   seventy-three years ago, th...

well, i saw a specialist for my elbow today.   in five weeks i will have an injection.   we shall see. the entire process was much as...

recently there has been a series of murders of black men by white police officers, none of whom has been in any way punished for the murders...

i continue to write with the forefinger of my right hand in a desperate effort to allow my left elbow to heal.   perhaps tomorrow the or...

jerry fresia's comment about physics as opposed to molecular biology brings to mind an old story   about nigel ffyfe-wittington, a l...

in the fall of 1954, i had tea with bertrand russell.  in a television interview, he had said that were he to do it over again, he would not...