Pick a number,(From the poem “Lottery”, by John Skoyles)
any number,
and it will bear
the teeth marks of time.
Mostly Yes
Big Questions
John Templeton Foundation’s “Big Questions” series of questions and answers by leading thinkers, scientists and economists. I love the design (big type = Win, for me) of the “answers” pages, and the writing is very meaty as well. These are the questions: Does the Universe Have a Purpose?, Will money solve Africa’s development problems?, Does science make belief in God obsolete? and Does the free market corrode moral character?.
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Guy Decoux, RIP
Guy Decoux was an enigmatic and ridiculously intelligent Ruby greybeard sensei, familiar to me solely through his zen-like emails on the ruby-talk mailing list, monumental insights concentrated into a few succinct lines of code. Somehow his presence - one of mystery, patience and intellect - seemed to me to embody the aura around Ruby then. He was a special part of the community, this news brought tears to my eyes. RIP, ts.
A tribute by _why. His drawing is heart-breaking.