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Scene 1. The Room. Jean Paul Sartre’s 1944 play No Exit depicts an afterlife where three people sentenced to Hell find themselves locked in a…
Leave a Comment(A Companion Piece to #nothingbadhappened) All too often, we find ourselves unable to predict what will happen; yet after the fact we explain what did…
Leave a Comment(photo credit: Mark White) I cribbed the name from an essay by Iain Stewart-Patterson, a mountain guide and faculty staff member of Thompson Rivers University…
Leave a CommentI’ve been thinking a great deal about the Judge lately. He’s the one who keeps us from reaching – what? – fulfillment, potential, Nirvana, whatever…
Leave a CommentSo there are these two guys sitting together in a bar in the remote Alaskan wilderness. One is an atheist, the other, shall we say,…
Leave a CommentIn his novel, The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy describes a scene where the two boys, having just crossed the border into Mexico, come into the company of…
1 CommentBias, Variance and Loss in Avalanche Forecasting by Peter Donner Revised: April 9, 2019 Statistical theory is relevant to avalanche forecasting through the concepts of…
Leave a CommentA few years ago, one of my best friends was caught in an avalanche somewhere north of here. The avalanche was triggered from above –…
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