Francis Bacon’s admonition to consider the true ends of knowledge

Mass graves may hold thousands killed by Assad's regime: impressive reporting from NPR npr.org/2025/01/26/122…

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower by Dylan Thomas - Poems | Academy of American Poets poets.org/poem/force-thr…

Glad I decided to take a walk in the rain

'Duck tape' predates 'duct tape' and now I'm doubting everything I think I know. Oxford English Dictionary, “duct tape (n.), Etymology,” March 2025, doi.org/10.1093/OED/56….

Pamela Paul on college students increasingly using no contact orders to block one another IRL: Originally a tool to protect victims in Title IX cases, “over the past 10 years…the circumstances under which a student might request an NCO have expanded considerably. Their quiet

“Falling” by James Dickey. One cannot just fall just tumble screaming all that time one must use It. poetryfoundation.org/poems/42716/fa…

‘Culs-de-sac’ spotted in the wild. (newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…)

Oliver North and Fawn Hall, Key Figures in Iran-Contra Scandal, Are Married nytimes.com/2025/09/09/us/… via The New York Times

Woman wrongfully detained in immigration raid describes what she endured youtu.be/AmfpngmLIzQ?si… via YouTube

A good baseball poem, in my opinion. newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

Has anyone on earth figured out how to teach epsilon-delta proofs effectively?

Been a while since I’d browsed my Petit Larousse, and I’d forgotten its levels of unabashed whimsy. Respect!

Kids just ran in to tell me about an object falling rapidly through the sky. “It looked out of control.” #HudsonValley