Experts in risk analysis have a model they use to describe the dynamics of disasters and our efforts to prevent them. Â It’s called the cumulative act effect, or more frequently (and popularly) the Swiss cheese model. Â In short, it imagines
Morning Math Puzzles
When I woke up this morning, I found myself wondering, how many years would there be in a googol of seconds? (Just in case you don’t remember your math trivia, a googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes,
Dreams of Quaymet
What follows is one part review, one part appreciation, and one part musings on the threads of causality — at least when it comes to the stories I’ve been trying to tell for so many years. Somewhere around the time
The words are dark, but the heart is lighter
My dreams have been getting kind of weird lately. I finally decided to capture a couple of them and some of the feelings they’ve evoked in a poem, which I posted up on Poetry.com. If you’d like to read it,
The power of dreams
I’m still amazed by how much power dreams seem to have. For quite a few days this week, I slept for eight hours and still woke exhasted — after a night of miserable, dreary or frightening dreams. Yet this morning,
A very long night
I think it’s because of the Prozac that I have very vivid dreams, and a lot of them. Sometimes it makes it really hard to feel rested. Last night was like that, and the last of the dreams was the