* * * Oh God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son" Abe says, "Man, you must be puttin' me on" God say, ...

* * * I started putting food out for a neighbor's cat after noticing one day while I was petting him that he was very skinny. F...

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* * * " The unique properties of the Golden Rectangle provides another example. This shape, a rectangle in which the ratio of the ...

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* * * "At Riobamba, the town about a hundred miles south of Quito where the disastrous earthquake of 1797 had been centered, the ...

* * * I just finished reading The Invention of Nature -- Alexander von Humboldt's New World , by Andrea Wulf, and I so enjoyed ...

* * * At Home & Abroad from John W. Wall on Vimeo . * * *

* * * "All the truly living, at least once, are born again." --Ta-Nehisi Coates from  The Beautiful Struggle The liv...

* * * I started hiking this morning on a thin dirt trail on the windward side of Bolinas Ridge. Visibility was probably around 100 ...