Evolving Thoughts

Evolution, culture, philosophy and chocolate! John Wilkins' continuing struggle to come to terms with impermanence... "Humanus sum, nihil humanum a me alienum puto" - Terence

Thursday, January 26, 2006

There is no spoon

A new study done at the Macfarlane Burnet Medical Research Institute has uncovered both the tendency of teaspoons to disappear and a new philosophy: Resistentialism. The French knew about it. They have a saying - les choses sont contre nous; the things are against us. I am pleased to see such a marriage of science and philosophy.