Here’s a website that explores the tensions that developed in the literary community around the development of new science and new technologies in the 19th Century. It’s worth a look-through, I think, if only just for some of the quotations and images that are included. The site is titled ‘Forces Wholly New’:A Perspective from Late 19th Century Academia on the Relationship between Poetry and Science And one more interesting link, about a moment in time when those opposing the teaching of science and the denial of Darwin (and for that matter science in general) began to lose their war. Let …

Here I sit at 9:40 in the morning, enjoying my summer holidays. The sounds on the street are the normal sounds in my little neighborhood: kids hollering at one another in Korean; cars honking; cicadas buzzing out their deafening symphonies. I bite into my breakfast, a scone (still a little frozen, but enjoyably so) and drink my coffee, coffee my girlfriend gave me, coffee from Canada that has somehow been made to taste like chocolate and raspberries. And I all I can imagine is, what if all this normality was just a very short-term thing? What if it was something …