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Grove Patterson, a once well-known newspaper man, writes about faith.
Archive for the ‘Woolgathering’ Category
December 25th, 2012
December 24th, 2012
Category: Woolgathering
As a parent of young children, I am interested in stories about when children stopped believing in Santa Claus and how they reacted to the news. I am particularly intrigued by the “cost-benefit analysis kids” who conclude that believing (or at least acting to your parents as if you believe) is free but has utility [...]
December 15th, 2012
Category: Woolgathering
200 Father Christmases unveil an plane branded ‘Change for Good’ to marked the raising of more than £1 million for UNICEF through easyJet passenger donations. Photo Courtesy of the Telegraph.
November 30th, 2012
Category: Technology and Society, Woolgathering
Hagfish shed light, or at least slime, on the drivers of innovation.
November 29th, 2012
Category: Woolgathering
The San Francisco Bay Area’s weather is so consistently lovely that men such as myself can get away with not having their much-used dress shoes re-soled when needed. However, the jig was up for me this week as I traveled to rainy London and Liverpool. The small holes in the bottom of my shoes worked [...]
November 22nd, 2012
A simple solar still using gold nanoparticles.
November 11th, 2012
Category: Woolgathering
In a touching article in the Telegraph, Caroline Greene discovers a box of old letters and documents which reveal what happened to her Grandfather in World War I and afterwards. At our sister site Washington Monthly, Colin Woodard describes how the Republican Party has completely lost its hold in the “Yankeedom” region of the U.S. [...]
November 2nd, 2012
Category: Woolgathering
Chris Kirk at Slate has a fantastic trivia game up based on identifying the electoral map for elections since 1860. If you get enough correct, you will earn sufficient electoral votes to be President (I just barely made it). Just as a hint, it helps a lot if you know about the history of third [...]
October 21st, 2012
Category: Film, Woolgathering
A slow Sunday at RBC, so I will pass along a trivia question based on something I learnt the other day. I recently recommended the film noir Too Late for Tears, in which appeared Arthur Kennedy. Today he may be best remembered for playing the Lowell Thomas character in Lawrence of Arabia, but he for [...]
October 20th, 2012
Category: Woolgathering
After a brutal divorce a friend writes: Nietzsche says that which does not kill us makes us stronger. But the truth is: That which does not kill us wears us down to the point that the next thing, which would normally be no problem, kills us.