Monday, May 21, 2012
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Saturday, April 28, 2012
wildflower collection: trout lily
where: Portland, Maine, near the Fore River
when: April 21, 2012
latin name: Erythronium americanum
wildflower collection: false rue anemone
where: our back yard (never saw it before this year; we cut 13 tall pines in 2010)
when: April 28, 2012
latin name: Enemion biternatum
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Anthropic principle
"Our universe is what it is because we are here. The situation could be likened to a school of intelligent fish who one day began wondering why their world is completely filled with water. Many of the fish, the theorists, hope to prove that the entire cosmos necessarily has to be filled with water. For years, they put their minds to the task but can never quite seem to prove their assertion. Then, a wizened group of fish postulates that maybe they are fooling themselves. Maybe there are, they suggest, many other worlds, some of them completely dry, and everything in between."
The Accidental Universe
Alan Lightman
Harpers magazine
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