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May 12, 2020•21 words
I posted a bunch of stuff tonight, but it is an accumulation of things written over the past few months obviously.
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Wednesday April 15 2020
May 12, 2020•94 words
It is just past midnight on Tax Day of 2020. Of course, the tax deadline has been extended by three months, so I am not going to be late. The Covid-19 saga is continuing; it feels lighter, as if something has passed, but it's hard to know, to be certain of anything. It is to the point that it will feel strange to return to work downtown, if indeed that happens at all. I am thankful for our state's leadership, in particular, of Governor Inslee, whom I've never liked or appreciated before.
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May 17, 2020•6,319 words
Michael Polanyi was an important thinker (1891-1976) whose work I appreciate. His essay Life Transcending Physics and Chemistry was published in 1967. I have not found it anywhere online.
It argues that the properties of life, that is, the arrangement of the molecules making up the chemical constituents of organic substances, are not completely determined by the properties of physics and chemistry. This is understood in the sense that there are very many possible stable compounds which can exis...
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