The woman who stabbed the gods in the eye

In past posts I’ve filled town squares across the planet with effigies to Yāska, Democritus, Leucippus and the 300 kilogram piece of god-killing kickass named Stardust. No question each deserves a spot, but standing over them all should be a statue, a solid gold one, to this magnificent woman, Cecilia Payne, who’s 1925 work on … Continue reading →

Can we please have a logical, rational, cosmologically sound conversation about death without all the magical bugaboos?

It’s coming to us all, there’s no avoiding it, and for far too long religion has occupied the high ground in any conversation concerning it. It’s death, and the balance of power swirling around this rather thorny subject has to shift back – radically back – to the rational and real. Now, let’s face it, … Continue reading →