So this guy eats some plums
The guy who ate the plums: William Carlos Williams‘s 1921 passport photo. Image source: Wikimedia Commons Look here to read William Carlos Williams’s poem This is Just to Say. Williams, the selfsame fellow who brought us the white chickens beside the red wheelbarrow, glazed with rainwater, published this piece in 1934. What is it about? [...]
Speaking of atheists and the periodic table, which we have been lately
Periodic Table of Atheists and Antitheists, courtesy of Michael at Ungodly News. He missed Nietzsche, Bill Nye, H. L. Mencken, and Ayn Rand, and I’m not sure Darwin belongs in there, but it’s a fine effort nonetheless. Look closely — there are some nice touches, like giving Ian McKellan the symbol “Gf.” Thanks for the [...]
Idols and icons
Theophanes the Greek, icon of the Transfiguration (1408). When Jesus was transfigured, Peter wanted to take the moment and hold onto it by building dwellings on the mountaintop. But Jesus, who knew the difference between idols and icons, said no. Image source: Wikimedia Commons Paula Kirby used to be a Christian but now she’s not. [...]
Meet good interatheist Chris Stedman
An inverted Chris Stedman and his “awful giraffe,” which I find rather endearing. Stedman is a humanist interfaith activist. Yes, you read that correctly. Image taken from NonProphet Status, Stedman’s blog Read Stedman’s shirt (in a mirror). It says “Good (Without God).” This particular atheist cliché always makes my head hurt. On one hand, as [...]
Door by door
Doorway in Galileo’s villa. I took this photo in 2003 when I visited Arcetri, a small Italian village just to the south of Florence. This is the interior of the house in which Galileo lived under house arrest from 1633 until he died in 1643. If I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art [...]
McGrath and McGrath on the insufficiency of science
Alister McGrath. Image source: Wikimedia Commons Alister McGrath says a lot of things that make sense. And when he joins up with his wife, Joanna Collicutt McGrath, things get even better. Back in 2007 the couple published an utterly generous and blessedly short response to Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion. Entitled The Dawkins Delusion?, it [...]
TBSP, Reznor style
Cassini Mission from Chris Abbas on Vimeo. Make sure to full-screen it and set it on HD. Read more about it here This is really a wonderful, hypnotizing look at Saturn (tbsp) and its flying circus of rings and moons. It really capitalizes on the beautiful (dare I say haunting) grayscale images that are a [...]
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