Monthly Archives: February 2019

Even Simpler and More Hopeless Than That

Posted on February 28, 2019 by Dave Pollard

image from youtube video by principieuniversi.com  I‘ve always had a deep-seated, intuitive preference for explanations and theories that are at once simple (“a theory should be as simple as possible, but no simpler” as Einstein possibly said), and complex (not … Continue reading →

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Glimpses

Posted on February 23, 2019 by Dave Pollard

“April is the cruellest month” — The first line of TS Eliot’s The Wasteland, originally read “February is the cruelest month”, but Ezra Pound insisted it be changed, not to make it truer, but because it sounded better poetically. Image … Continue reading →

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