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Big Ideas Online

Remember how I said yesterday that this whole journey is going to take a while?  Remember how I mentioned that it’s good to surround yourself with great discussions–whether or not you agree with them? Wanna practice, but in a fun way? Here are six excellent websites to explore.  They’ll blow your mind…and keep you interested […]

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Rethinking the Human Narrative

Ah, it seems like it’s been so long since I’ve sat here by you, chatting.  We mustn’t do this again–this whole neglecting our conversation thingamajig. I’ve just returned from Colorado Springs, where I met a group of amazing and wonderful people who are eager to collaborate in some way.  [I won’t go into details here, […]

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San Fran

It’s so good to be back home, and to see your bright smiling faces this morning.  I’ll share a brief photo essay of what our time was like in San Francisco–the city of steep streets, sea lions, bread bowls, and cable cars.  [Forgive the blurriness on some of the pictures.  They were taken with an […]

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Ice Formations

I’m fascinated by ice.  Did you know that there are physicists who freeze water under varying conditions, just to see what formations they come up with?  They apply their results, then, to ice found in the earth’s colder regions–to make hypotheses about previous conditions–much like a dendrologist would do by studying tree rings. In 1998, […]

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Waterbirds

Thought you’d enjoy this slide show of the various and remarkable waterbirds that Theodore Cross has photographed, compliments of The New York Times. [Cross’ voice reminds me a little of my UCLA professors–very monotone and non-exuberant, but hang in there, it’s still interesting…] Cross photographed many of his birds on Christmas Island in the Indian […]

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