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Deconstructed News
Read this post on my blog. Deconstruction was a hot, new technique in literary criticism 25 years ago when I was a grad student in English studies. It was hot because it was favored by the sexy French theorists like Jacques Derrida and Jacques Lacan and also because it authorized a detached, cynical approach to…
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Odds for Life
There are about 100 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. In standard notation that’s 100,000,000,000 Since the Hubble Space Telescope has pushed our eyes ever farther into the observable universe, astronomers now believe that there are more than 200 billion galaxies. That’s 200,000,000,000 If our Milky Way is an “average” galaxy, then there must…
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Headlines
Read and comment on my blog. In a recent exchange with Facebook friends, it came to light that some people only read headlines. One interlocutor opined: I’ve said for years, people read headlines, but nothing below that. The problem in this country is that people are too lazy to be informed. I disagree with turning…