Time Travellers, Dancers, and Evolution
Instead of a science that looked at precise instants in time, constructed out of exact measurements of the kind that gave civilization (so to speak) photography, the poet Goethe proposed a science that...
View ArticleThe Life of the Cosmos, or Reviewing Lee Smolen
Here’s something troubling. It comes from theoretical physicist Lee Smolen. Lee Smolen, Physicist Source He writes: …all talk of future, past, and present is relative to the moment of time of the...
View ArticleThe King’s Way: Science, Multiplicity and Nature as an Artwork
I’ve been trying to say something useful about Goethe this week, which is a tough thing to do with a writer who was used for nationalist purposes ever since his youth in pre-Napoleonic Germany. When my...
View ArticleEarth Talking: The Language of Science Part 4
There are many ways to talk about the earth. One is to speak about it in its own terms. Take the word height, which means hill and head all at once. It’s related to the word stick, which means point,...
View ArticleThe Secret of Life
Last week, I was speaking about alternative science. This week I am going to be talking about some practical applications of it. But first, one final illustration, because I find it so beautiful, and I...
View ArticleThe Technological Applications of New Scientific Thinking
I promised I would talk about practical applications for science based on observing the world in its own language. (This is commonly called phenomenological science, but I’m trying to find a simpler...
View ArticleBeauty and Science
Science is a cultural product, no less so than this: Canadian Garden Decoration, Orchard Hill Not only has the lion lain down with the lamb but it looks like one, too! That it is taken to be an...
View ArticleReading the Land for Real
You know how I showed you Sen’klip (aka Coyote) the other day? Yes? No? Yip yip? Yap yap? No matter, he’s such a handsome guy he’s worth having another look-see. What a dude! Well, here’s his...
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