Like spinach?

Blogging, like spinach, liver, and weight-bearing exercise, is good for you. I’m not big on liver, but I’m awright with weight-bearing exercise, and I looove spinach. Where, then, do I stand with blogging? I’ve been asking myself that a lot lately. Asking asking asking. Asking asking asking. Asking asking asking. Hooboy, that’s a whole lot of [...]

Fragment VII — rule of thumb

The kouros stands, left foot forward, looking straight ahead, arms at his sides, thumbs foremost. With a faint smile on his lips, he embodies ‘youth’ and ‘male beauty’, ideals of aristocratic culture in Archaic Greece.
 
To create this flawless athlete, ancient sculptors used canons—sets of “perfect” mathematical ratios and proportions—to depict the human form. The [...]

I’m 40-percent thumbs

Despite the popularity of the saying, we humans will never be “all thumbs.” Ten million years from now, however, we could be “almost half thumbs.” A professor and chief surgeon at the Robert A. Chase Hand & Upper Limb Center at Stanford told me she sees a trend toward the little finger becoming a second thumb. [...]