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The Clutter In Our Lives
This morning while I was preparing to leave for work, I had one of those moments of clarity, where Truth just stands up and demands your attention. I have always been a bit of a neat freak when it comes … Continue reading
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Tagged children, clutter, fleeting moments
My Great-Grandfather was an Extra-Terrestrial – Chromosomal Complexity Is Older than Earth
The other day I stumbled across a thread in one of NASA’s internal discussion forums where a few engineers were debating the finer points of a recent article in the MIT Technology Review that discussed a paper recently published titled, Life … Continue reading
Be Still, My Soul
A few mornings ago on the way to work I was listening to the radio and a piece by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius called Finlandia was aired. Quite a beautiful piece of music in its own right. Mid-way through the piece, I … Continue reading
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Amadeus, Brains, Butterflies, and Spaceships …
Someone asked me a little while ago, “What music inspires you when you write?” I thought that was a very good question, and not having personally spent a lot of time considering why I ‘do what I do’, I decided … Continue reading
Posted in Inspired Moments
Tagged abstraction, brain plasticity, brain-based teaching, creativity, music, neural correlates, perception, planning, Stanford
Funerals Suck!
A few days ago I attended the funeral of a friend and co-worker’s wife who was in her early forties like myself. Losing a repeated battle with breast cancer, she left behind two daughters and a son, all under ten. … Continue reading
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Life Elsewhere in the Universe
I was monitoring one of the internal NASA social media channels this morning and was reading a thread dedicated to “Do NASA Employees Believe in Extraterrestrials?”. The premise of the question itself I thought was interesting and amusing, but some of … Continue reading
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Tagged Extraterrestrials, Life elsewhere in the universe, NASA
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” — William Butler Yeats I saw this quote this morning and it really spoke to the core of one of my strongest beliefs; education. Because we … Continue reading
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Why Do I Write?
Some have asked me why I write or how I got started writing science fiction when it seems so far removed from the discipline of engineering and our widespread reputation of being horrible and uninteresting writers. While the latter still … Continue reading
Posted in Inspired Moments