Tag Archives: speculation

classifications

Posted on January 14, 2009 by twotreatises

A few years ago decided I was going to write an article (which never happened). I went around asking my friends if they ever thought of numbers and letters as anything else or associated any non-communication traits with numbers and … Continue reading →

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We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live

Posted on December 22, 2008 by twotreatises

[member_only]1, 2[/member_only] I just watched A Skin Too Few: The Days of Nick Drake (2000) last night. At one point in the documentary, Nick’s sister recounts a story of how she was once mean to him in elementary school. This … Continue reading →

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science and entertainment

Posted on December 16, 2008 by twotreatises

“The Science & Entertainment Exchange is a program of the National Academy of Sciences that provides entertainment industry professionals with access to top scientists and engineers to help bring the reality of cutting-edge science to creative and engaging storylines.” will … Continue reading →

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Wakefield by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Posted on September 18, 2008 by twotreatises

full text can be found here Hawthorne recounts a newspaper article about a man who one day left his house for no reason, lived across the street unbeknownst to his wife and friends (who thought him dead) for 20 years, … Continue reading →

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why Germans are obsessed with the American West

Posted on January 8, 2008 by twotreatises

articles to track down: “Cowboys und Indians.(Germans celebrate American West)” (Newsweek, Aug. 2002, by Stefan Thiel) “How American Is It: The U. S. as Image and Imaginary in German Film” (The German Quarterly, Vol. 57, No. 4, 1984, pp. 603-620, … Continue reading →

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