Jul 20, 2019 | Lies, Poetry, Truth, Truth & Lies |
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too...
Jun 23, 2019 | Truth, Truth & Lies |
Until the nineteenth century it was generally, if not universally, believed that the world was a few thousand years old – something that could be measured by the timescale of human generations – as in the fifth chapter of Genesis. But in 1830 Charles Lyell...
Jun 16, 2019 | Truth, Truth & Lies |
The subterranean world can be a place of fantasy, therefore, where the ordinary conditions of living are turned upside down. In the nineteenth century it was seen as a sanctuary for criminals, for smugglers, and for what were known as “night wanderers”; the cellars...
May 25, 2019 | Truth, Truth & Lies |
I left the Rio Negro and went on south to Port Madryn. A hundred and fifty-three Welsh colonists landed here off the brig Mimosa in 1865. They were poor people in search of a New Wales, refugees from cramped coal-mining valleys, from a failed independence movement,...
May 19, 2019 | Letters, Truth, Truth & Lies |
The brilliant physicist and nobel laureate Richard Feynman lost his wife and high-school sweetheart, Arline, when she was 25, and he 27. This is the letter he wrote to her 16 months after her death. It was sealed and never opened until his own death in 1988. October...
Apr 28, 2019 | Geekery, Truth, Truth & Lies |
Contracrostipunctus Achilles has come to visit his friend and jogging companion, the Tortoise, at his home. Achilles: Heavens, you certainly have an admirable boomerang collection! Tortoise: Oh, pshaw. No better than that of any other Tortoise. And now, would you like...