Writing broadens your horizons. Recently it broadened mine to nanotechnology. I already had a vague idea of what nanos are – gleaned mostly, I admit, from science fiction. Those sci-fi writers have crazy ideas, some of which are borrowed from scientists. A good number of scientists are hoping to create artificial photosynthesis. “Yes,” you may…
Tag: Nietzsche
God is Dead
“God is dead.” Who hasn’t heard that? Nietzsche proclaimed it, one of those godless Germans of the nineteenth century who had such impact on the twentieth. I always thought it was triumphalist; they’d crow if they didn’t sneer. So I was surprised when I read Don Veinot quote it in context: God is dead! God…