A blog of engaging conversations about life and experience.
How speciesism contributes to the controversial debate over the use of animals in biomedical experiments.
we should revisit call to the bookshelf as imaginings?
Clay is a substance that forms and transforms. It has transformed our societies and shaped our past and it may be that in the relentless process of evolution, it formed us.
The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.
-Shana Alexander
Size Matters - a look at how size matters in everything from biology to physics, engineering to history and more.
Book review: The Trouble with Physics, by Lee Smolin.
When examined up close, the utter simplicity of Helvetica is almost laughable and has been criticized as boring, plain, and flat. Yet its resounding popularity leads us to question just why this font has been popping up on every street corner for nearly half a century.
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.
-Benjamin Britten
Ken Milkman, philosophy and mathematics professor, proves that there is indeed a place for mathematics in a Liberal Arts education.
Most people who take a math course at Dawson, and many who do not, know Tom Fox.
Tips for students considering attending university in the United States.
This past October, Montreal had the privilege of hosting Lawrence Krauss of Case Western Reserve University. Move this to reviews.
A review of Philip K. Dick's book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
