Valentine’s Day Poem 14 Feb 2008 Comment Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong, And I am Marie of Roumania. Courtesy of Mrs Dorothy Parker Humor Social evolution
Evolution Social networking is not new 26 May 2009 John Hawks mentioned a lovely article in the New York Times, interviewing an anthropologist, Pauline Wiessner, who worked with the !Kung bushmen in the Kalahari. She notes that they maintain social relationships across many hundreds (and in her case, when they found a satellite phone, thousands!) of kilometres. This means… Read More
History A philosophical apology from 1919 for not being pro-war 21 Jan 201221 Jan 2012 Leiter posted the PDF of this on his site. I can’t help but reproduce some of the choicer quotes: “DEAR FRIEND: Your letter gently but un-mistakably intimates that I am a slacker, a slacker in peace as well as in war; that when the World war was raging bitterly I… Read More
Evolution I am a paleontologist 3 Sep 2009 By “They Might be Giants”: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ8rblUtEXA&hl=en&fs=1&] Read More
That’s cool … but a little sad too. Even though there is no mention of the word ‘love’ in the song – this is the coolest love song I know: Imagine Imagine there’s no Heaven It’s easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today Imagine there’s no countries It isn’t hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace You may say that I’m a dreamer But I’m not the only one I hope someday you’ll join us And the world will be as one Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharing all the world You may say that I’m a dreamer But I’m not the only one I hope someday you’ll join us And the world will live as one
That’s cool … but a little sad too. Even though there is no mention of the word ‘love’ in the song – this is the coolest love song I know: Imagine Imagine there’s no Heaven It’s easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today Imagine there’s no countries It isn’t hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace You may say that I’m a dreamer But I’m not the only one I hope someday you’ll join us And the world will be as one Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharing all the world You may say that I’m a dreamer But I’m not the only one I hope someday you’ll join us And the world will live as one
May I lower the tone? I love a good bum on a woman It makes me feel happy all day It’s a proof of God’s existance A posteriora Jake Thackery
A few (okay, several) years back, the Flash Girls did a song called “Dorothy Parker and Me” which has that verse as the chorus. If you can make the intertubes deliver it to you, I strongly recommend it.
Valentines day for silverbacks. http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1713215,00.html?cnn=yes
Valentines day for silverbacks. http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1713215,00.html?cnn=yes
Valentines day for silverbacks. http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1713215,00.html?cnn=yes