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A humbling experience with verbal tics
First, you do the writing. Then, the rewriting and throwing away and rewriting and rewriting. Then, editing, and more rewriting....
Richard Farr
Jun 3, 2014
Inappropriate metaphor of the year award
According to a story in this morning’s New York Times, there’s controversy at Bryan College in Tennessee over a new addition to the...
Richard Farr
May 21, 2014
Bad science, bad history, bad TV: we are but motes in the infinite cliché
I wanted to wish Neil deGrasse Tyson well on his rebooted COSMOS project, I really did: he’s a good scientist, and he can write well....
Richard Farr
Apr 21, 2014
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