• In an age of heightened environmental awareness, is the above insignia really the best way to promote a brand of paint?• Unfair competition? The 2016 Olympic Summer Games in Rio De Janiero will actually take place in winter. What can be done about this hemisphere bias?
• Do dog owners really look like their pets? I have to say this seems to be the case. And so among the conclusions you can reasonably draw is that because people choose their pets, then people generally see their own image as desireable.
• I was struck by how 18th century astronomers were able to use the Transit of Venus in 1761 and then 1769 to calculate the actual distance between Earth and the sun. Simple equipment but extremely elegant logic and calculations allowed insight into realities beyond our immediate grasp. Make me wonder if there's not a way to tease out truths about our existence from the mundane and humdrum lives we all lead. Is there a parallax of the soul?
• When nothing else is going right, read a book by David McCullough. Right now I'm going through "Pathway Between The Seas," his 1977 history of the construction of the Panama Canal. Wow, I had no idea how bad a pesthole Panama was!
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