Today’s “golden oldie” was first posted here in early 2013, just a few months after I started this blog–so long ago that don’t remember writing it! The good news is that my response to reading it a couple of days ago was “Wow! That’s pretty good!” Enjoy! A recent edition of Harper’s Magazine includes a fascinating essay by physicist and novelist Alan Lightman entitled “Our Place in the Universe.” The point of the essay is to put us in our place,... Read more