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 Thing About Einstein (and Heisenberg)
The Ethical Dimension
I’d like to talk ethics today, with East Germany in view, though, because it was a society that allowed an alternate vision, not only of what might have been possible (good and bad), but into […]
The 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 […]
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 […]
Colonialism and the University in the Okanagan
The Canadian stretch of the Okanagan-Okanogan is not just the northern tip of a vast intermountain grassland created by the pressure effects of wet air being desiccated on its rise over the […]
Graffiti is Beautiful
Sulfur Cinquefoil Graffiti (government owned electrical substation wall)… And with a little help from her friend Sagebrush… Wild lettuce graffiti, too! With help from Mme. Cheatgrass! Compare the human version: Same thing!
Pollination Dance
When one insect …. … crawls, buzzed on nectar … …out of a mariposa lily and flies off to the next flower … Zebra Wasp Takes Wing … another insect that was over […]
Mariposa Lily and Her Gardener
The mariposa lily and sweat bee dance is late this year, by calendar reckoning, but just on time by the measurement of sun and rain.I’m thrilled that they are here!
June 24 And Summer Is So Over
Well, either that or it means nothing here in the grasslands of the North American North West. Beautiful, though.The way it busts up concrete is also beautiful, don’t you think?
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 […]
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