So Tara Smith writes about her trip to the Creation Museum, and she says they watched a movie about angels where the chairs vibrated and the seats squirted water any time when the movie made a really stupid claim, and down in the comment thread CJ compared this to the “feelies” of Brave New World, and somehow I felt a song coming on:
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National What Month?
The world would be a safer place if Sean Carroll didn’t go around telling people it was National Poetry Month. For you see, I took two semesters of Poetry Workshop (easiest course credit I ever got). I also took a couple archy and mehitabel books with me to Amsterdam one lovely spring, which I read in between researching my supersymmetric quantum mechanics paper, visiting the Van Gogh Museum and generally enjoying the sights. All of that probably sloshed together and fed into the following, which is entitled “workshop”.
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