Life at DrTom's

DrTom shares his intellectual inquiries, mental musings, and awkward adventures in upstate New York and around the world. Betcha can’t read just one.

"To hell with facts! We need stories!"
— Ken Kesey

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Senescence sucks: The final chapter (part 6)

(An elderly Eskimo on an ice floe in the final days of his life. I would do this now, but I hate the cold.) Yesterday, I had my follow...

Sunday, December 6, 2009

The culture of science and the theory of evolution

(Young Charles Darwin. For a great read on his early life and explorations, see "The Voyage of the Beagle".) I find constant...

Saturday, December 5, 2009

The tale of the look-alike shoes

(Would you lower your young son into one of these to retrieve an expensive pair of shoes?) In 1985, I took a bunch of grad students fro...

Monday, November 30, 2009

Cell phones: The device I love to hate

I have hated cell phones since their inception. Maybe it is because I have always hated talking on the phone to almost anyone at anytime....

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