After-Orts #86
… having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.
— Spock, in a classic Star Trek episode, Amok Time
- fairy circles -
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/science/fairy-circles-cause-water-termites.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
news from all over:
In Florida, a lawyer who fought against helmet requirements for motorcyclists died after crashing his bike while not wearing a helmet.
We need intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has any magic about it, but because we cannot study the future, and yet need something to set against the present, to remind us that the basic assumptions have been quite different in different periods…
— C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), in The Weight of Glory (1949)