Halloween is about ghosts and goblins and scary sounds of spooky beings in dim corners. There’s a movement to Halloween: skeletons are alive and goblins pop up in the shadows, as the kids hop around their neighborhoods in funny costumes collecting candy. Some older teenagers get in on the action too. “Trick or treat,” they [...]
This butterfly on display at the botanical gardens of Asheville, N.C. is constructed out of 60,549 Lego pieces. Here’s irony worthy of thought: there’s truth in numbers. Really? Maybe. We consider numbers objective – 8 is 8, not 7 or 9 – an expression of reality, a substitute for making our relative [...]
Like millions of people, I watched the Trump/Clinton presidential debate the other night. I learned very little new, but was happy to see, in my opinion, boorish Trump scrunched in every category, starting from the first sentence when he asked permission to call Clinton Madame Secretary to his last-incoherent rant about trade as an answer [...]
