The Philosopher's Stone

No doubt you are aware of the flap over vaccination triggered by an outbreak of Measles in California.  Apparently, lots of up-scale tree-hu...

My former student visited the set of the movie and met Vera Farmiga herself, so that reduces by one the number of degrees separating me from...

Most of you are familiar with the notion of "degrees of separation," made popular by a play and then by a parlor game called ...

With the entry and then exit of Mitt Romney [rather like one of those old stage farces in which a character pops out of a door and then turn...

Switching around channels on the TV, Susie and I stumbled on and just watched Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein , one of the all-time great...

I have been hard at work on next Wednesday's lecture since early this morning.  I have only worked this intensively on the preparation f...

In the Fall of 1951 [yes, really sixty-four years ago -- that is not a typo] I took Willard van Orman Quine's graduate Math 280 course a...