Richard Feynman and the malaise of science envy
What’s not to envy (I mean, besides the clothes and hair)? Feynman, a physicist who knows baloney when he sees it, chilling at a Caltech blackboard. Image courtesy of the American Institute of Physics Of late I have been engaged in a discussion with Tom and Todd about whether or not Intelligent Design (ID) is [...]
Sanity is not all that
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Self-Portraits, 1887. Pen and ink, graphite on wove paper. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Van Gogh is perhaps the canonical example of the mad artist. He did indeed have a difficult life. Whatever one may say about his mental health, however, he produced some of the most critically acclaimed works of art [...]
