1. What is your name?
2. What is your quest?
To be the Lady of Everything
3. What is your favorite color?
Fuchsia
4. How did you discover Everything, and how did you become a noder?
I stumbled upon e1 one afternoon, and found writing nodes downright addictive.
5. What do you see as the…
So I was browsing the homenode of one of my favorite e2 users and saw a simple imperative listed:
Your assignment is to compare the rise and spread of the Abrahamic religions to that of Walmart.
At first, I laughed. Then I thought about it for a minute. I suddenly realized that this was an important subject. There are certain parallels here that simply cannot be denied. The Abrahamic religions are so…
In the spring of 1990, Voyager 1 had become the most distant man-made object in the solar system. At the urging of the famous astronomer Carl Sagan, NASA directed Voyager to take a series of photographs of the planets between February 14 and June 6, creating the first 'family portrait' of the solar system. One of these pictures was of Earth, a picture which in its own way has become as iconic as The Blue Marble and Earthrise.
…In the last ten years I learned, reading somewhere, that American doctors die young. They die an average of ten years before the rest of the American population. This bothers me for three reasons. One, I am a doctor. Two, my grandfather the psychiatrist died ten years before any of my other grandparents and 21 years before his wife. Three, why? What is it about doctoring that kills doctors younger?
It's not
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