HAI-KŌAN Each ball rolls as pushed, yet, try to repeat one path, mostly chaos wins. A kōan (公案) is a paradoxical anecdote or riddle, used in Zen Buddhism to demonstrate the inadequacy of logical reasoning and to provoke enlightenment or the “great doubt” in the student practitioner.
Read more "HAI-KŌAN"SCENE SEEN We live in just a few frames of the film that tells the epic tale of existence, and, through careful study of our moment, we believe we can grasp the whole picture. Maybe, assuming the plot’s logical and our faith (founded in cause and effect) is unerring, we can work out the […]
Read more "SCENE SEEN"EVOLUTION OF VOLITION I’ve seen plants display behavior, if not learning, sans nervous system.
Read more "EVOLUTION OF VOLITION"Needle spins too fast to point in firm direction, easy to lose way. No one anymore can distinguish greater good from lesser evil. When profit is weighed against cost in human lives, we sail uncompassed.
Read more "Moral Compass"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"Raw Marvel We’ll teach them to reach with caution, but children must pursue their wonder.
Read more "Raw Marvel"IS THAT A HADRON IN YOUR POCKET? Two things cannot occupy the same space, But, if they’re bosons, this doesn’t apply. Like clowns in a clown car, they can embrace the same quantum state, but no one knows why. Of course, they cannot be negative or get any sort of a charge out of […]
Read more "IS THAT A HADRON IN YOUR POCKET?"THE TIME OF MY LIFE If I could travel back into times past to see the truth of history and such, I don’t think I would want my stay to last. I simply couldn’t stand to stay there much. The future, many generations hence, would only make me want to return here. Where once I […]
Read more "THE TIME OF MY LIFE"Navier-Stokes Equations Intrinsic to flow, how turbulence gets started no one understands.
Read more "Navier-Stokes Equations"Often Overlooked Evolution is as much about allure as it is survival.
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BARD OF MARS 