Founded 1983: Liberal Mindset; Conservative Morality

May 13, 2025May 13, 2025

‘c’: More Than Just Fast as We Unpack the Universe’s Master Constant

Let’s dive into the universe’s ultimate speed limit: the speed of light. It’s a concept so fundamental that it underpins much of modern physics, yet so mind-bogglingly fast that, as you say, human intuition struggles to truly grasp it. We call it ‘c’, and its value in a vacuum is precisely 299,792,458 meters per second. That’s not just an estimate; since 1983, the meter has been precisely defined as the distance that light travels in a vacuum in exactly 1/299,792,458 of a second. So, light’s speed isn’t just something we measure; it’s a foundational pillar of our measurement system.

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March 1, 2010

Poking the Red Eye

In a great civilian uprising against — the Panopticonic Red Light Camera — those unblinking red eyes are being closed in the polling place by voter fury.

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November 17, 2009

The Unbearable Lightness of Sammy

Baseball player and steroid user Sammy Sosa appears to now be hiding from his crimes against the game by changing his Race. The dark-skinned Sosa is now the bright white Sammy. Say it ain’t so, Sammy, say it ain’t so:

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July 30, 2009

On Becoming Question Centric

We live in a world where answers are given more value than the questions being asked. We want results, not idle inquiry. We reward the definite and the concrete while dismissing the unanswerable and the curious. Today, I argue, the best of us really rests in the questions we ask and not in the answers we provide. When Albert Einstein was a teenager, he asked this question: “What would happen if I could imprison a ray of light?” Nobody had the answer to his question. For the rest of his life, he honored his own childhood wondering and brought the rest of us into his light.