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dr-steve-mcswain's picture
Feb.22.2012
“Paint your pallet blue and grey, Look out on a summer’s day, With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.” Don McLean’s lyrics tell the haunting story of the darkness…the emptiness that was the soul of Vincent Van Gogh. There’s a lot of emptiness in the universe…an infinity of darkness in this...
patricia-v-davis's picture
Dec.12.2009
Like a number of other wonders now in my life, I came late to appreciating the importance of scientific knowledge for the common person. In high school, my lack of such was stupendously appalling. In 1970, when I was a freshman, I had a crush on a boy who came to class one day in April, quite upset...