Random Thought 05.22.10

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts ~ C.S. Lewis

Final Picture from Hubble Camera

Planetary nebula Kohoutek 4-55 (or K 4-55)

The final picture from the Hubble camera before it is replaced this week ~ Universe Today

You Don’t Know What You Want

What a relief. It’s not just that I will defend my choice to the end, I might not even know what that choice is. Are you Choice Blind ?

Reducing Reading to Evolution

Jeremy Hsu analyzes the evolutionary basis for our love of storytelling in Why Dead Authors Can Thrill Modern Readers. Do we have an intrinsic desire to punish the bad and exalt the good? Literary Darwinists suggest that we are hardwired to enjoy storylines that enforce the rules of the tribe. Then why do we also have an equally perverse desire to champion the outsider, the rule breaker and the renegade?