Category Archives: Rachel Hadas
Heart-stoppers
Yesterday morning was one news-heart-stopper after t’other, wasn’t it? Scarcely had I allowed my eyes to trail over the headlines when I saw that: 11 Climbers Had Died on K2 Alexander Solzhenitsyn Had Died K2: Alexander Solzhenitsyn: It is much, … Continue reading →
Filed under Poetry, Rachel Hadas, Stirring World Events
Tagged as barely peeking, cups of cups, grande vide, Solzhenitsyn, The Magic Line
Fractal Geometry, or “Humor Me”
My superfriend Fischer got me a subscription to Seed Magazine [“Science is Culture”—did you know that?] this past Christmas. I truly enjoy Seed’s glossy pages, and science, and articles about the ocean floor, but its sometimes-hipness does–at times–make me feel vaguely squicky. This is a publication which more … Continue reading →
Filed under Math and Science: General, Poetry, Rachel Hadas
Tagged as 10¹ m, Benoît Mandelbrot, champing, metaphorical ice cream trucks, the death of Euclid
