Food for Thought
“In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tag Archives: weirdness
Is that a real poncho or is that a Sears poncho?
[Natural Patriot's semi-trivia contest: My 11-year-old son wants to know if any alert reader out there can identify the source of that quote.] In the meantime, a note to the Ex-President-to-be: Dude, stick with the flag pin on the lapel. … Continue reading
I propose a toast — even at the expense of scientific productivity
And now, as the Pythons say, for something completely different. I realize that this is a bit peripheral to the mainsteam content of this blog but (as another famous person said), “I’m the decider”. In our profession of science, probably … Continue reading




