There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy (Hamlet, I.5) I probably started collecting baseball cards somewhere around the time I was in the third grade. Kids would bring their baseball cards in to school and excitedly talk about their rarity, value…

“Farabi was a philosopher, one day he came into the assembly of the Caliph dressed in a short cloak and simple clothes, for he was of Turkish origin. Farabi began to play his cymbal and to sing. Now there were three kinds of music, according to this philosopher. One made…

After completing my degree in computer science I had difficulty imagining how what I learned had anything to do with the “real” world of programming. I could write algorithms in C++, make a webpage with HTML (I got my degree before CSS really took off and JavaScript was still used…