So? You think people stop talking to you when they are dead?.

Sentimentality and nostalgia are closely related. Kissing cousins. I have no time for nostalgia, though. Nostalgics believe the past is nicer than th….

Algebra messed up one of those divisions between things that help you make sense of the world and keep it tidy. Letters make words; figures make numb….

Grandad taught me that the alien signs and symbols of algebraic equations were not just marks on paper. They were not flat. They were three-dimension….

History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We're not especially interested in what it consists of. We wait, more or less p….

The three things that kept me sane as a child were bikes, books, and soccer.

Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book..