Experimenting with an ever-changing essay — Preface [25062023] Today, June 25, 2023, is the 171st birthday of Antoni Gaudí, the Catalan architect who designed the church of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain. Construction of this church began on March 19, 1882. It is still ongoing. I visited the Sagrada Familia some years ago; when I saw…

Hoarding can also occur in our heads — More than a century ago — in 1905, to be precise — famed physicist and future Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein published four papers in Annalen der Physik, the prestigious German scientific journal. One of the papers, “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”, focused on special relativity and introduced the…

0 is a figure, after all… — I joined Medium on January 19, 2021. I remember that day like it was six weeks ago. It was a chilly Tuesday afternoon in Madrid, Spain. Traces of snow from the biggest blizzard in five decades still covered the streets. …

Sort of unsatisfying meal of assortments — Welcome to the era of misinformation! We have fake news and alternative facts, so why not also a deceptive dictionary? With that in mind, we’ve created the Menagerie of Made-up Morphemes, where our imagination runs wild concocting fictitious words and their definitions based on the letters provided by The New…

We revisit a style of sailing… and a crane — Today’s Spelling Bee letters are B, E, L, O, T, U, and center F (all words must include F). According to the Spelling Bee Master, this is the first time that this pangram, or combination of seven letters, has appeared. But don’t worry. Today’s short list of dords* includes a…

Air mattresses… literally! — Welcome to the era of misinformation! We have fake news and alternative facts, so why not also a deceptive dictionary? With that in mind, we’ve created the Menagerie of Made-up Morphemes, where our imagination runs wild concocting fictitious words and their definitions based on the letters provided by The New…

It’s a fateful revisit, the one we have today — Today’s Spelling Bee letters are A, C, M, O, R, T, and center I (all words must include I). This pangram, or combination of seven letters, has appeared once before: March 9, 2022 (center letter: M) And on that date, the dord* we picked to write about was moira. What…

We revisit a not-so-obvious fruit and a cartoon artist — Today’s Spelling Bee letters are D, E, N, P, U, X, and center O (all words must include O). This pangram, or combination of seven letters, has appeared once before: March 5, 2022 (center letter P) And on that date, the dord* we picked to write about was pepo. What…

That loving feeling… — Welcome to the era of misinformation! We have fake news and alternative facts, so why not also a deceptive dictionary? With that in mind, we’ve created the Menagerie of Made-up Morphemes, where our imagination runs wild concocting fictitious words and their definitions based on the letters provided by The New…