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It was while cobbling together a high voltage power supply for a lab-made nitrogen laser (some time in the 1980s) when I discovered something about sound. I went to our venerable guru, Mr Tecson, for advice about my circuit that was emitting a shrill, high frequency tone the source of which I could not trace.

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One of the marvels of this computer age is cut-and-paste. I could not have done this homily without control-x and control-v. Back in the days of Olivetti and Remington, we only had Snopake correction fluid. Or that white strip or correction tape we typed over to make wrong letters disappear altogether.

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Back in the days when we still had a poultry house at the Jesuit novitiate, it was my task to gather the chicken manure in a wheelbarrow and mix it with the soil to fertilize our vegetable plots. It still amazes me to think that something green and edible could grow out of chicken dung.

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In the hours that followed the Sydney siege this week, Rachael Jacobs spotted a Muslim woman on the train who was quietly removing her veil or hijab.

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Try this little exercise: go to your room, gaze at the stuff you have inside, and examine what is yours. In your mind, attach a tag or label to all that you think you own.

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Once upon a time, I ran around the Araneta Coliseum for my life. That was right after a particularly heated NCAA game and I found myself alone outside, which in those heady days of our youth, was not wise.

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Have you ever seen pure light? There is no such thing. Not even laser light, which is made with light waves being made to move in concert with each other. Even pristine white light is ordinarily incoherent and made up of a blend of colors oscillating to rhythms that are hardly synchronized.

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The time of Easter, our time, can be a fuzzy time.

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In the film, “A Beautiful Mind,” there is a scene where the mathematician and Nobel laureate, John Nash, proposes to his girlfriend. When she says yes, he asks for proof of her love.

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In science, laws are just an expression (in mathematical code) of patterns we find in nature.

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Back in the days when we still had a poultry house at the Jesuit novitiate, it was my task to gather the chicken manure in a wheelbarrow and mix it with the soil to fertilize our vegetable plots. It still amazes me to think that something green and edible could grow out of chicken dung.

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In the hours that followed the Sydney siege this week, Rachael Jacobs spotted a Muslim woman on the train who was quietly removing her veil or hijab.

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Try this little exercise: go to your room, gaze at the stuff you have inside, and examine what is yours. In your mind, attach a tag or label to all that you think you own.

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Once upon a time, I ran around the Araneta Coliseum for my life. That was right after a particularly heated NCAA game and I found myself alone outside, which in those heady days of our youth, was not wise.

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Have you ever seen pure light? There is no such thing. Not even laser light, which is made with light waves being made to move in concert with each other. Even pristine white light is ordinarily incoherent and made up of a blend of colors oscillating to rhythms that are hardly synchronized.

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The time of Easter, our time, can be a fuzzy time.

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In the film, “A Beautiful Mind,” there is a scene where the mathematician and Nobel laureate, John Nash, proposes to his girlfriend. When she says yes, he asks for proof of her love.

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In science, laws are just an expression (in mathematical code) of patterns we find in nature.

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