Fascinating tales of my global wandering.
Today’s entry marks Helix day (http://www.thehelix.co.uk/) which is, coincidentally, today. The Helix is a development of the area where the Forth and Clyde Canal meets the River Carron. The Forth and Clyde Canal was constructed in the late 1700s to connect the Firth...
Why in the world would I want to create a blog? I have been asking myself that question a lot ever since my good friend Neil started putting together this web site for me. Maybe I should step back a bit. A few years ago it became possible to register .ca domain names...
There is no past or future,only the present.And time doesn't exist the way we think it does.-Kirk Sutherland (paraphrase): Coronation Street In an interesting set of coincidences, as I have been working on this month's entry, the above quote was uttered on my...
Marty! You've gotta come back with me!...Back to the future.'Doc' Emmett Brown: Back to the Future Part II For as long as I can remember I have been curious about time. According to Einstein and others, it is another dimension like the three dimensions of length,...
'Ex nihilo nihil fit'-Parmenides of Elea My topic for this month is panpsychism. This is the concept that the mind or some corresponding entity is a universal aspect of reality, not just of humans and certain animals. This was the topic of my dissertation for my BA...