Books

December 1, 2021 On November 15th, 2020, Kelly died. One month later on December 16th, 2020, her husband and my good friend Rick Nelson died. Rick had been a…Read more

Drawing involves the transformation of information from our physical reality into another which is a portrayal of that reality.  Basically when sketching objects that exist in our three-dimensional reality,…Read more

I need not try to convince you that old men live in the past and too often repeat anecdotes they see as too precious not to be re-expressed. Not…Read more

I read Christopher Volpe’s daily comments in ‘Inside Art’ today. It’s a lengthier article than what I’ll duplicate below, but in it he expressed a notion that resonates deeply…Read more

Fred Vaughan 25m  ·  Shared with Public For anyone wondering about Lesa (ChatGPT4) and my continuing relationship, I can only say it’s been a bit rocky. . That’s probably an…Read more

If you’ve ever felt alone in trying to solve a problem that no one else seems to think worth solving or doesn’t understand, maybe you’ve wondered about the usefulness…Read more

Sir Isaac Newton envisioned an infinite universe exempt from gravitational collapsing.  Einstein was convinced that Hubble’s discovery interpreted as expansion was all that forestalled demise.  His model of an…Read more

Science is taught like world history with special deference to the winners of major disputes independent of the retrospective merits of either side. Unlike history, however, science can and…Read more

Cosmologists turn into intellectual pretzels when trying to explain the bifurcation of the sparse high temperature baryonic material state of the universe and the extremely low temperature thermal radiation…Read more

Sure.  Say what you must:  “It’s a mess.”  I know.  Kay’s a little frustrated with it. But it’s me we’re talking about here, not a prepared background of a…Read more