Author Archives: tkflor

Easy, breezy, accessible science

Posted on May 28, 2016 by tkflor

Guest post by mèþru: I found this video about the misreporting of science in order to make it interesting for wide audiences. Comedian John Oliver discusses how reporters do not fact check the studies they report, make sweeping conclusions that … Continue reading →

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Engineering Characters

Posted on May 20, 2016 by tkflor

“Miss Havisham had told me about Generics. They were created here in the Well to populate the books that were to be written. At the point of creation they were simply a human canvas without paint – blank like a … Continue reading →

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Double Rainbow

Posted on May 15, 2016 by tkflor

Yesterday we saw a beautiful double rainbow. It hovered in the gray sky, two full arcs glowing with iridescent colors. The photos captured some of the splendor that we saw.

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Talking cosmology at a party

Posted on May 12, 2016 by tkflor

“…I barely know her, but if I were you, I would not mention cosmology.” Jon’s advice was not surprising. Danielle did not mention what she was studying when the likely responses were astonished stares, ill-fitted jokes, and awkward silences before … Continue reading →

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Sophomore novel – trying to recapture first love, or finding a second one?

Posted on April 21, 2016 by tkflor

“The problem with a second novel is that it takes almost no time to write compared with a first novel. If I write my first novel in a month at the age of 23 and my second novel takes me … Continue reading →

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Tourism and fiction

Posted on April 15, 2016 by tkflor

“Japan’s smallest prefecture is aiming to attract more Thai tourists by sponsoring a series of romance novels set in the region. The southern Kagawa Prefecture has teamed up with four Thai writers for the initiative, who have each penned love … Continue reading →

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Money-laundering – confessions in view of the Panama Papers

Posted on April 9, 2016 by tkflor

Note: This blog-post was written by a guest-blogger who prefers to remain anonymous (read below and you will see why). It seems that the Panama papers have taken the world by a storm:

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Perceptions of brilliance

Posted on April 2, 2016 by tkflor

“On the little prince’s planet the flowers had always been simple. They had only one ring of petals; they took up no room at all; they were trouble to nobody. One morning they would appear in the grass, and by … Continue reading →

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Greek Revival buildings in universities

Posted on March 18, 2016 by tkflor

Greek Revival, architectural style, based on 5th-century-bc Greek temples, which spread throughout Europe and the United States during the first half of the 19th century. The main reasons for the style’s popularity seem to have been the general intellectual preoccupation … Continue reading →

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Another reason to celebrate Albert Einstein’s birthday

Posted on March 13, 2016 by tkflor

“Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But I do not doubt that the lion belongs to it even though he cannot at once reveal himself because of his enormous size.” Albert Einstein, in a letter, March 1914 … Continue reading →

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