Polymath at Large

 kw: book reviews, science fiction, short stories, ekumen series, space travel, anthologies, collections I read some of the stories collecte...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, science, optics, visibility, invisibility In a video you may have seen (watch it here before continuing; spo...

 kw: science, cosmology, dark energy, supernovae, supernovas, type ia supernova, metallicity INTRODUCTION The ΛCDM model of the Universe was...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, language, writing, spelling, spelling reform, history The cover is too good not to show: e nough is enuf: our...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, humor, satire, lampoons, parodies Well, folks, this is a step up from Kindergarten: Everything I Ever Wanted ...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, land use, agriculture, prairies, restoration, conservation About 45% of the land area of the "lower 48...

 kw: analytical projects, greenhouse effect, global warming, absorption spectra, saturation Reading a book about agriculture led me to think...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, science, olfaction, nose, sense of smell It is fascinating to watch a motile bacterium such as E. coli in mot...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, psychiatry, mental illness, bipolar, recovery, twelve step programs After reading Unshrunk: A Story of Psychi...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, medicine, economics, motivation, biases You're 48 years old. You have a pain in your gut. Over the next f...

 kw: book reviews, nonfiction, science, paleontology, biographies, dinosaurs, t rex, tyrannosaurus rex The last summer that I was a geology ...