broken symmetry

During symmetry breaking there is less order and more chaos, and the fundamental characteristics of the universe are radically altered

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Bitter Kola and Mont Febe

Lunches are getting increasingly interesting. They are experimenting with us. On Wednesday, they served us "plums": a sour, str...
You owe me better than this

At what point did they realize I wasn't playing a game? Did they ever realize it? I don't know that they could have. People who make...
"In the beginning was the deed"

Goethe tells us that this was Faust's rewrite of the opening phrase of the bible. Not the Word. The Deed. How interesting that Faust...
Le Carre's tunnel

It was well below freezing and dark by the time I took the 6 mile bicycle route to the train station at 1940. As usual, I listened as I rode...
To My Watcher

I've wanted to write to Sjors but I find myself writing to you instead. You: the watcher. The monitor of all my words. What do you thin...
The Possibility that Wasn't

Yesterday, the program in Senegal closed up. The team I'd been mentoring was rapidly becoming autonomous and, even if I'd scheduled ...
Criminal Complaint

Last week, I was in Germany; at a maritime tabletop exercise. I ate salted German food. I worked with the African participants of the exer...
The way you laugh

How are you doing? Why does this question still matter so much to me? Every day you are on my mind and I wonder how you are. No matter h...
Champions and Cowards

We are at the end. In a few hours, this chapter will be closed. I am awake now. At times throughout the day yesterday, I experienced a se...

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