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Yesterday, driving back from seeing the horses, we overtook a train. Now, trains are one of the best places to get a good dose of the Doppler effect. As the train passes (or as you pass the train), the pitch of the train’s whistle changes quite dramatically (especially with a train moving as […]

You can imagine that there are two ways of moving through life. In the one, we live in a world of fixed ideas, while in the other, we live in a world of pure existence. In the first way, our lives are full of anxiety, because the real world never quite matches up […]

One of the great things about using a blog is that readers can comment on what they read. Comments come in many varieties – some praise, some misunderstand that these writings are pointers rather than descriptors of truth, and some intelligently challenge an aspect of the writing. These latter are among my favorites, […]