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From Lynn White’s “Medieval Technology and Social Change“, Chapter III, Section 2, “The Development of Machine Design” (114-5) Students of applied mechanics are agreed that ‘the technical advance which…
I had read somewhere that Robert Louis Stevenson had bequeathed his birthday (13th November) to a girl who was born on Christmas Day. Lately I came across Katherine Miller’s poem…
Originally posted on dispatches from the undergrowth:
Conservationists constantly worry about how to ‘keep things going’ – be it a bird, butterfly, or some other organism teetering on the brink.…
From “God’s Gamble: The Gravitational Power of Crucified Love” by Gil Bailie, here is a passage on “the cul-de-sac of autonomous individualism.” I have been reading a lot of and…
From “Choruses from the Rock”, T S Eliot: In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and…
At the now defunct Sci Phi journal, here is an interesting story by G Scott Huggins, “The Unbelievers”. The story has a fairly clear theological point, but also reminded me…
My story “The Granddaughter Paradox” was published about this time last year in Sci Phi Journal. Unfortunately, I have now discovered, Sci Phi journal is no more (although the website is still…
Séamus Sweeney 