The Philosopher's Stone

It is a beautiful end of June evening here in North Carolina and I have been in a foul mood all day long. There are couple of things I wan...

I suppose Shakespeare, from time to time, fussed and fretted over his quills, trying to get them sharpened in just the right way so that h...

Opaque asks, “What is the most influential force contributing to the dominance of STEM funding? Is it a historically enacted policy? Is i...

I sit here, safe and isolated, brooding about the world, about the devastation that the virus is causing, about police murder of black men...

If you are a college or university professor, you might want to look at  this.    It really raises doubts about whether an on-campus fall se...

I have now finished reading my 1989 Amherst talk onto my computer, courtesy of Dragon.  It runs to 8000 words, a trifle much for a blog post...

I am hard at work reading into my computer a lengthy speech I gave at Amherst College thirty-one years ago, using my new voice recognition p...