ClockQuotes

It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active it is dangerous.

- Crystal Eastman

More like this

I'm a terrible sleeper, which is perhaps why I got invited to contribute to a NY Times group blog on "insomnia, sleep and the nocturnal life". Here is my first contribution, which focuses on the work of Dan Wegner: My insomnia always begins with me falling asleep. I've been reading the same…
I know what I feel, and I don't like it. I don't know what to say, and I don't like that, either. I've been trying to write this post for two hours and three beers now, and I've spent most of that time staring at a blank white box on the screen. I've started to write things time after time, and…
Since Julie blogged about a call to her home from a student who wanted to add her class, I thought I'd add a story of my own, from waaaay back: I was in the second year of my chemistry graduate program, TAing the thermodynamics course for chem majors. One of the students in the class had been a…
I quite annoyed one of the authors of that "Kill All The Predators argument, who butted heads with me on Twitter and told me I had to go read this longer essay by Jeff McMahan which would address all my objections, because philosophers all seem to think that if they can babble long enough, they'll…