In 1543, Copernicus published this book and changed everything: De Revolutionisis Orbi Before he did that, the Earth was considered the centre of the universe. After he was done, the sun was […]
There is More Than One Sun and More than One Earth
The Poetry and Science of Flight
I am trying to learn how to read. So, I’m standing in the middle of the road hoping no car will come. I’m doing this because it’s time for the last birds […]
Haig-Brown and the Energy of the Universe
What if these yellow asparagus ferns in the fall were not wild? What if there were no wilderness? That’s no far-fetched, really. In Nu-chal-nuth culture, on the long beaches and rocky islets […]
Words, Humans, Earth: the Relationship Renewed
Let’s open with poetry today, and then stand firmly in science. First, the earth turns towards the sun … (Trumpets tooting … can you hear them?) … and the starlings hold the […]
Zombie Apples
I don’t want to eat zombies! It used to be that the apple industry was based upon creating industrial activity around the harvesting, processing, packing and shipping of apples, which grew in the […]
Sculpting the Body with Flowers and Stars
Which is more beautiful? Gloriosa daisies on July 10? Beauty, after all, is balance and function, united as one. All bright and new. The Okanagan Okanogan Fusion Reactor, Third Year Or Gloriosa […]
Living in the Sun
Look at how the water bends around the feet of these water striders. It’s like walking on an electrical force field. We call it “reflections on a lake”, but this is the […]
Mapping the Formation of the Solar System, Now
In honour of my 500th post in this exploration… The Okanagan Okanagan Nuclear Reactor at 500! With a nuclear engineer, even! Hurrah! …I’d like to ask a question of the ideal university. […]
The Ideal University
Yesterday, I started collecting questions I would ask of an ideal group of scientists and natural philosophers at an ideal university that merged art, science, philosophy and ethics into a unified field […]
The Ethics of Science, Art and Light
Here’s some mullein blooming against a backdrop of grasses gone to seed. The seeds represent four months of light transformed into starches and stored in the seeds of the grass, which show up […]
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