The science based on Darwin holds that plants evolve over time to fit various ecological niches. This bunchgrass, for example, evolved to take advantage of hot, windy climates. The science based on […]
Veraison or The Time of Ripening
The green balls of malolactic and citric acid are turning to tartaric acid now, and depositing sugars as water flow into grape berries decreases. The skins of the grapes are beginning their mysteries, […]
Life (and chipmunks)
Fire comes from the centre of the solar system. Water comes from the edge of the solar system. They meet on earth. You would think they might extinguish each other, but no. […]
Why Good Science Matters
Yesterday, I wrote this: It is time to stop taking the world apart and to acknowledge that what we seek is what we will find. It is that kind of universe. I […]
The Thing About Einstein (and Heisenberg)
Yesterday I spoke about the social nature of the scientific systems of both Darwin and Goethe and how their examples gave us the freedom to choose new paths of science to match […]
The Problem With Darwin
Darwin is English. Goethe is German. There have been wars over this. Pity. Let me explain. First, an image of multiplicity from the former East Germany: Goethe’s Botanical Garden in Jena, Germany […]
Newton, Goethe, Light and the Future
I will now try to do what even the Goethe Museum in Weimar fails at splendidly, despite putting on a big show and charging something like 10 Euros to see it, which is […]
Two Different Methods of Science
Yesterday, I pointed out parts of the scientific colour theory of the poet, statesman and early scientist Goethe. That theory is based on the belief that a science built from a foundation of […]
Reading the Colour of the Dry Season
In the northern fringe of the Intermontane Grassland of the West, the grass mingles with water and trees. Oregon Grape, Kalamalka Lake Here’s another view: The earth generates colour here on contact with light […]
Frankenstein, Humans, Art and God
There is a seed in the pile of broken glass below. To put it another way, humans see. The earth seeds. They are the same thing. See? Making Seed: Male Sumac Flowers in […]

