Foreign Languages
by Kevin T McEneaney Did you know flowers speak to bumblebees by way of electrical impulses? When a flower has not attracted bees, it gives off static electricity which pulls at the small hairs of a bee’s back that lets ...
The laughing animal
by Kevin T McEneaney In the nineteenth century, we thought we were more intelligent than animals, and that we were not animals ourselves. * In the twentieth century, we thought machines as stupid as a doornail, yet we needed to ...
On the tongue
by Kevin T McEneaney I, who sang of love and chemistry, now sing the glories of strawberry jam without maligning other flavored jams. (I speak of only homemade jams, not of over-processed store-purchased jams.) * The sweet scent of berries ...
When Old is New
by Kevin T McEneaney I’ve heard folks make fun of Homer and his “rosy-fingered dawn” trope, but those who say such things have little appreciation of dawn: its pristine hope, awesome promise, that glow making all things new, which is ...
Playing dice
by Kevin T McEneaney Does an infinity really exist? One runs into invisible quarks. One cannot divide space infinitely, yet space certainly can be quantified. * What happens if you go in a straight line? Will that straight line continue ...
How can this be?
by Kevin T McEneaney How can a point with no volume at all contain the volume of infinite space? One second after the immense Big Bang the journey to infinity began…. * Was the Big Bang a singular event, or ...
In praise of slugs
by Kevin T McEneaney I, who sang of astronomy and kindness, now sing manifold virtues of the slug, a shell-less terrestrial gastropod— a form of crawling, slouching mollusc, a polyphyletic category subject to crass and ignorant insults, like “Why are ...
That Boob Tube
by Kevin T McEneaney How often do you worship your TV? Do you adore news, sports, or movies? How many stations do you find obnoxious? Do you watch wrestling, boxing, or gambling? Are you attracted to sitcoms or game shows? ...