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On A Swiss Approach To Funereal Times: The Culture and The Biome
When a child is born there are usually a few questions that come right on the proverbial heels of the announcement. Are the mother and baby healthy? Boy or girl? How much did they weigh?...
A Summoning: Masks, Myth, and Hygeia
The African masks were not simply sculptures like any other. Not at all. They were magic objects. – Pablo Picasso In Harlem in New York City, right here on 125th street, just a few blocks...
The Utility and Excellence of Felt and Leather: Exchange and Consequence and COVID 19
About two thousand years ago in Northern China there was a fairly steady low grade war between the Xiongnu people of the steppes of Central Asia and the Han Chinese who lived in more urban...
The Necessary Slowness of Making Meaning: Phaethon, Tunguska, and Coronavirus
On June 30th, 1908 a meteorite exploded over rural central Russia near the Podkamennaya Tugunska River. This explosion came to be called The Tunguska Event. Though scientists didn’t really start to even explore the impact area...
Six Feet: An Avian Wondering
Six feet. This is one of the new unsought mantras of this particular time. It is spoken aloud and internally in our few meanders outside. The image above was sent to me and I...
A Time of Trouble: From The Smokehole in Siberia to Boccaccio’s Decameron
My friend Dr. Martin Shaw is one of finest storytellers we have in the English language. In the last few days wrote this: In Siberian myth, when you want to hurt someone, you crawl into their...
Love In The Time Of Corona
This image above are the Northern Lights, the Aurora Borealis, as seen from one vantage point in space. That crown, that rim of green-blue light is a kind of corona. And that word has, properly,...
Bird God Graffiti in New York City and the Celestial Northern Cross
As The New York Postreported a few weeks ago “A vandal stole a cherry picker and tagged Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza arch with a massive piece of graffiti Sunday that read “Bird God.” Videos and...
The Warmth of the Whale
While some say the wheel and others say agriculture and yet others say metal work, I think it is hard to say that the capacity of human beings to make fire on demand isn’t the most...
Babylonian and Greek Trigonometry: The Land that Impacts Mathematics
Certainly the very word ‘trigonometry’ might bring up a wince in you. Horrible memories from high school or college with sine, cosine, or secant charts. Or maybe you just avoided it because it just sounded...
