It’s nearly an hour, but it’s probably worth the time: a presentation by a physicist to a general audience about Einstein’s formula.
Month: July 2008
Monday Poem: “A Pact” By Ezra Pound
A Pact
I make a pact with you, Walt Whitman –
I have detested you long enough.
I come to you as a grown child
Who has had a pig-headed father;
I am old enough now to make friends.
It was you that broke the new wood,
Now is a time for carving.
We have one sap and one root –
Let there be commerce between us.
Maybe Pound did come back in a way…
See Also: Wednesday Poem: Wallace Stevens-Anecdote of The Jar
Happy 4th Of July
“When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation…”
