Adventure
With the emergence of ebook self-publishing over the past few years, it is now possible for anyone to produce their written works in an array of electronic formats and achieve broad distribution in a market eager for new material. Peter Oakley’s illustrated “Oceans of Light: A Users Guide to the Multiverse,” published last year via […]
When my sweetie arrived home yesterday evening, she said kids across the street appeared to be messing with a handgun out in front of their house. I peeked out the front window, and sure enough the oldest kid was working on the gun with a screwdriver while his buddies looked on. The family there had […]
This is a very exciting time in the life of Tame Bear. You’ll see why when you watch this video. (Watch it full-screen if you can. And if you love it, click the “Favorite” link.) I’d like to thank my family for making this day possible: Thanks Mama Bear, Papa Bear, and Sister Bear and […]
A Traffic Exchange is a web site where participating members spend time viewing each other’s web pages. “I look at your web page, you look at mine.” That’s the essential exchange which is the goal of Traffic Exchanges (TEs). There are hundreds of TE web sites and you can join most of them for free. […]
If The Bear appears to write often without making reference to God, it’s because God runs through all-that-is without ever being a separate thing. I do not wish to invoke the idea of a creator-God separated and apart from all else. This is why I see you as no less of a creator than God. You […]
Surely 9.8 million tweets can’t be wrong. Computer scientists analyzed millions of tweets from 2008, characterizing trends in “mood dimensions” with evocative names such as “Calm,” “Alert,” “Vital,” “Sure,” “Kind,” and “Happy.” The researchers found that the “Calm” index tracked well with the ups and downs of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, while preceding them […]
So a couple weeks ago, The Bear discovered Quora, and signed up. Pretty quickly, I got an email from Quora, asking if “Tame Bear” was in fact my real name… A Quora admin said: “Hello, One of the rules of Quora is that everyone uses his or her real full name. Do you mind changing […]
Big adventure: The Bear is going to the annual Burning Man festival out on the salt flats of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. Here in home-town Goshen Indiana, it’s surprising how few people seem to know anything about Burning Man. Or maybe it’s not so surprising? That picture above is the city that springs […]
What is reality? At its most fundamental level, reality is very strange. Subatomic particle physicists, theoretical quantum physicists, cosmologists, string theorists, and multiverse theory mathematicians are all working to get at the underlying truth of reality: How is all this we see around us formed from basic building blocks? What are the rules and forces […]
