Here at Blog Wyrm we have an editorial policy of gentleness. We don’t shy away from a well supported opinion but we try not to criticize unnecessarily. We don’t avoid controversy but we don’t try to titillate or provoke. We believe that it is better to propose than to oppose. Nonetheless, there are times when deviation from the rule is needed. And this is one such time.
Put bluntly, we hate April Fools pranks. The whole concept annoys us and we don’t get it. Where in the social contract did we agree that for one day, each year, people have the license to lie, trick, and make trouble for us for no reason other than the perverse joy they receive from being able to say ‘Ah! I really got you’. Pathetic.
Thankfully, our columns this week are neither pranks nor pathetic but rather pithy and priceless.
Each of us uses the basic notions of time and space each and every day. Whether just being able to reach out to grab something we want or using a GPS-navigation system to avoid traffic at rush hour, we employ frames of reference so routinely that we probably don’t even think about them – but we should. As this week’s Aristotle to Digital shows, precise definitions for these basic concepts are hard to pin down but the effort is worth it. In trying to do so, we can learn a lot about frames of reference and how we can know and explain our individual points-of-view.
Adult coloring books are all the rage. About Comics presents a fun idea making your own. All you need is a smart phone (or digital camera or a scanner), some photo-editing software, and some of those DC Showcase or Marvel Essentials black-and-white reprint volumes.
Anytime you hear the latest news from the Large Hadron Collider, somewhere in the article, the energy of the accelerated particles is listed, in units of thousands, millions, billions, and so of electron volts. But just what does this mean and how fast are these little chunks of matter actually moving? Under the Hood explains it all in loving detail.
Central to any analysis of economics is the good – the basic unit of production, consumption, and transaction. Some people want to but them while others want to sell them. But all goods are not created equally. Common Cents shows that much like that famous westerns, good divide up into the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Enjoy!