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Rush’s “The Trees” and the life and death battle happening in your backyard

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Large tree with exposed tangled roots in a dense green forest

While many have claimed the classic song is anti-union and anti-socialist and some of have argued the opposite, to my knowledge, no one has attempted to interpret it literally, as in this is what trees and other plants actually do and have done for hundreds of millions of years.  On the surface, Rush’s classic “The… Continue reading Rush’s “The Trees” and the life and death battle happening in your backyard

Shakespeare’s quantum mechanics in verse form

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The Bard wasn’t a scientist, unless you consider him an explorer of the human mind as some critics have asserted, and yet if we can divine one overarching theme he pursued, we might say it is uncertainty itself. Sonnet 94 is perhaps his greatest achievement in this regard, as the meaning changes based on the… Continue reading Shakespeare’s quantum mechanics in verse form