Thank you, HIGH SHELF PRESS Chronic Hypochondriac She finally saw the specialist who told her to stop diagnosing herself. She’d no macular degeneration — just eyestrain from searching the internet, and her kidneys were not about to fail; She only needed proper hydration. Though she got prescriptions to aid her ills, she […]
Read more "CHRONIC HYPOCHONDRIAC"I have to ask for help to make this happen. Bard Of Mars At “La Ville Rose” Your donation will allow me to present my poetry in person to a scientifically inclined audience of five thousand international guests. I hope to affirm for them that science and poetry are not in opposition, but benefit by […]
Read more "Too Good An Opportunity To Miss"SCIENTIFIC METHOD When we set out to really understand the world, we must bring keen observation to bear upon the facts and reluctance to assume a hypothesis is correct until proven repeatedly through experiment. We must also abandon all our preconceptions, eliminate unrelated, stray variables and prepare to face the truth. 1, […]
Read more "Scientific Method"🎤 SCIENTIFIC CONCEIT As striking as a scientist’s mind is and undeniable as is his math, focus, by definition, tightens his perception, as he strides along his path. While his predictive powers gain in might, and understanding and progress accrue, he takes pride in his clarity of sight, not apprehending it’s narrowed his […]
Read more "Scientific Conceit"HERE “Now” is a term elusive and ephemeral. We can only define it as the point at which the imaginary becomes real – that is to say, the moment that the future is actualized – but ever encroaching is our growing history that unrelentingly pushes it one way only through extent of space and […]
Read more "Here"STENDHAL SYNDROME He gave his nom de plume to a syndrome that speeds the heart and makes consciousness faint in the presence of preserved pronouncements, skillfully and visually presented, conveying significance or beauty. Art is a three-letter word, and, like God, sublime for the most part. Look in its face, and you‘ll see beyond brushstrokes […]
Read more "STENDHAL SYNDROME"Go Ogle Sometimes we miss things that are just over our heads. Let’s learn to look up.
Read more "Go Ogle"PAYLOAD SPECIALIST for Christa McAuliffe McAulliffe, lone civilian on doomed flight, who staked her life on those whom she believed would bring her fame that she could use to teach when she returned to Earth, shall be long grieved. For something sadly simple as a seal the engines catastrophically failed. Let’s not point fault, but rather […]
Read more "PAYLOAD SPECIALIST"THE INVENTOR Tesla dreamt the world that was meant to be with free electricity and air cars, but Edison, quite unfortunately, was reaching into pockets, not for stars. After a meager grant from old J. P., he began Utopia’s legacy; Nobly naïve, Tesla gave it for free, thus making this backer his enemy. He could […]
Read more "THE INVENTOR"Navier-Stokes Equations Intrinsic to flow, how turbulence gets started no one understands.
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