• "Walking backwards along a (circular) trail"

    Minor epiphany this morning while playing Taiji: "Walking backward along a circular trail" is a much better description of life than "Marching forward", "The forward march of progress" etc. My Taiji...

  • Conceptualizing 'Years'

    It occurred to me last week, while I was trying to understand the blurb for Prof. Nappi's talk, that a lot of work in academics revolves around identifying concepts from different cultures and comparing...