by Randal Matheny

Intermittent cold and hot
do harm to health and weal;
The soul whose ardor burns and cools
in waves will never heal.

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The weather here on the Tropic of Capricorn can't decide if it wants winter or summer. I trust your soul is a steadier sort.

Yesterday, on the email list UPlift, someone complained about the Bradley quote, "We have too many." Argued the plaintiff, "I think we have too few men of true science. Please remove me from your list." I regret the misunderstanding of our purpose both on the email list and our modest weblog. You don't have to agree with everything you read here. I don't even agree with 100% of the wording I post, but I do think I post words worth our mental cogitation to make us better people.

Oh, and the only way one will ever find a list that agrees completely with one's views is to start one's own. :)

Want to get someone's attention? Appeal to their personal interests.

Example: As far as I know, I'd never gotten a first-page mention on blogs4god. I went and read up on the moderator of the journals category, where my blog lay dormant. I discovered she teaches statistics at the Univ. of Auckland. So I sent her this email, with the title "Statistically speaking":

What are the chances you've peeked at Random Variables (http://random.antville.org) lately? You may find a blog or two of interest for your blogs4god cache.

Rolling the dice,

Randal

It worked, and she gave me a very nice mention, even with the Bradley quote put on display.

Of course, that we have top-notch, positive content might have something to do with it as well. Right, Rachel?

The big news: chimpanzees and homo sapiens are not as similar as once thought. A genetic study of the California Institute of Technology (I'm translating from the Portuguese, so I hope that's right) discovered that the genes of the two groups are not 98.5% identical, but only 95%.

The Big Question: what else will they discover that's so different between the two that will discredit for ever the bad theory of evolution?

Of course, if they study a few homo sapiens I know, they might conclude that the relation between chimps and chumps is much greater than once believed.

by Randal Matheny

Everywhere I go I take with me
God's loving presence and serenity.

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This couplet fell into place in response to a poetry forum challenge sent out this morning. One had to use the words, "everywhere I go." Since our family will be traveling on Wednesday to the U.S. for six weeks, it seemed especially appropriate.

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