Chet Raymo, “Examination Of Conscience”
“Examination Of Conscience” by Chet Raymo “I have been reading Stephanie Smallwood's “Saltwater Slavery”, a close examinati…
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Showing posts with label Chet Raymo. Show all posts
Chet Raymo, “Gnomes At Home”
“Gnomes At Home” by Chet Raymo “When I wrote “The Path: A One-mile Walk Through the Universe," I had walked the path between…
Chet Raymo, “All Night, In The Dark”
“All Night, In The Dark” by Chet Raymo “Why do we so admire the poetry of Mary Oliver? She is not the most technically proficient…
Chet Raymo, “Navigating”
“Navigating” by Chet Raymo “My ignorance grows by leaps and bounds. I try to keep up. I read "Science" and "Nature…
Chet Raymo, “Cultivating Amazement”
“Cultivating Amazement” by Chet Raymo “There is only one question, says the poet Mary Oliver: "How to love this world."…
Chet Raymo, “A Universal We?”
“A Universal We?” by Chet Raymo “I have a few words to say about Oxford anthropologist Harvey Whitehouse, and his thoughts on rit…
Chet Raymo, “Games of Gore”
“Games of Gore” by Chet Raymo "Last week the New York Times had a full two-page ad for "The Game of Thrones", an H…
Chet Raymo, “The (Unattainable) Thing Itself”
“The (Unattainable) Thing Itself” by Chet Raymo ․ “Clear water in a brilliant bowl, Pink and white carnations. The light…
Chet Raymo, “Speak, Memory”
“Speak, Memory” by Chet Raymo “There is no mystery in science more baffling than memory– the way a melon-sized ball of mea…
Chet Raymo, “Stretching The Imagination”
“Stretching The Imagination” by Chet Raymo “Professor, that stuff you spoke of in class this morning- about the beginning …
Chet Raymo, “A Momentary Stay”
“A Momentary Stay” by Chet Raymo “This from a review of Paul Muldoon's new book of poetry, "Maggot", by Nick Laird,…
Chet Raymo, “Dewy-eyed”
“Dewy-eyed” by Chet Raymo “I believe I have mentioned before that many years ago, before I started writing for the Boston Globe, …
Chet Raymo, "Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence"
"Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence" by Chet Raymo "There have been so many books lately profferi…
Chet Raymo, “Monkey Business”
“Monkey Business” by Chet Raymo "Do men have mid-life crises? You betcha. I'd be hard pressed to think of a male among m…
Chet Raymo, "Why Not?"
"Why Not?" by Chet Raymo "A few days ago reader Liz asked: "If we are all one and made out of the same materi…
Chet Raymo, “Is Consciousness Incomprehensible?”
“Is Consciousness Incomprehensible?” by Chet Raymo "There are reasonable arguments for the incomprehensibility of human cons…
Chet Raymo, “New Philosophy - 2”
“New Philosophy - 2” by Chet Raymo "Koyré's "From the Closed World To the Infinite Universe" was published in …
Chet Raymo, “New Philosophy - 1”
“New Philosophy - 1” by Chet Raymo "It is one of Albert Einstein's most-often quoted quotes: "The most incomprehens…
Chet Raymo, "Rules For Believing And Thinking"
"Seven Rules for Believing" by Chet Raymo "I was reading again recently Richard Dawkins' letter to his daught…
Chet Raymo, “Charybdis”
“Charybdis” by Chet Raymo "To my mind, there is no more spiritually fulfilling experience than lying on one's back under…
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