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The Last Word On Nothing | Ice Skating: an Overanalysis
This first ran January 3, 2019. I don’t know if Emily ever bought disability insurance or...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Spring: The Season of Hope
Oh Spring! It’s a season of contrast. Winter has ended (unless you live in Colorado, as...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Wait, is life just hard?
In the last two years I’ve had a number of stressful experiences. And every time I’ve...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Gen-X-istential Dread
Can I just say this? Those of us born in the 1960s and ‘70s are in...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Escape from the Wonder Killer
Going into nature, how long does it take till you feel like you’re there? There meaning...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Guest Post: A golden rule for publicity seeking aliens
My phone buzzed just as I was finishing filming with the BBC Sky at Night crew...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Brittany and the Beavers
Ben has had to leave LWON but has kindly left us these memories, these posts which...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Arrivals and Departures
In a few weeks, the back fence by the elementary school with be a place where...
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The Last Word On Nothing | In Praise of Minor Bulbs (Updated)
The repetition of this post, which first ran on April 5, 2021, and then again almost...
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The Last Word On Nothing | The Mental Load of Packing Lunches
At first blush, the request from my son’s preschool seemed reasonable. “As spring time approaches we...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Redux: Rare Birds
This post first ran in March 2022. A few days ago, a friend texted me that...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Consider The Rocks, and You Might Feel Better
My preschooler is awed by many things, some of them more generally relatable than others. A...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Science Poem: Farewell Transmission
What follows is a poem about the Voyager spacecraft I wrote a long time ago, when...
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The Last Word On Nothing | A taxonomy of internet demons
“Whether we like it or not, there are things out there, not alive, that think about...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Stop and Experience A Moment Of Wonder
I’m in my office. It is snowing lightly outside, and suddenly I hear them — a...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Snapshot: Flower season
Spring seems to come every year. The apple tree in front yard has leaves. The season...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Sky Squirrels
I always knew flying squirrels lived among us, probably of the southern variety, in the trees...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Every Small Action Magnifies
Decades ago when I was hoping to become a scientist, I got a master’s degree dealing...
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The Last Word On Nothing | A Voice in the Sandstorm
When civilizations fall into barbarism, the arising culture fetishizes strength. So it has always been. It...
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The Last Word On Nothing | By the Spoonful
There is always one section in our utensil drawer that is emptier than the others. Spoons...
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The Last Word On Nothing | The Fallacy of the Last Move HA!
Well this story is just a pure delight. In 2017, the Chinese said that by 2030,...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Leaving / Imprints
Mom spreads maps over the dining room table. They’re oldish, not ancient, but the home I...
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The Last Word On Nothing | Redux: Fear the Deer: A Comprehensive Ranking of Cinematic Roadkill
By the time you finish reading this paragraph, somewhere in America, someone — a long-haul trucker...
