Edmund Nash is off to St Petersburg and will be blogging from there on Postcards from St Petersburg. He is there for a conference on protistology where he will be hoping to enlighten his colleagues on the mitochondria of dinoflagellates and their evolutionary relationships. He may well also be able to entertain us with some photos and news of St Petersburg.
Say a prayer for him as he is flying today with Rossiya - the low-cost subsidiary of Aeroflot.
Thinking of St Petersburg reminds me of a joke from the communist era about a survey:
1. Where were you born?
Answer - St Petersburg
2. Where did you grow up?
Answer - Petrograd
3. Where do you live now?
Answer - Leningrad
3. Where would you most like to live?
Answer - St Petersburg
5 comments:
& i thought i was confused!
F. Tim,
All good wishes to Edmund Nash, and with a prayer for his safe arrival and return.
Forgive my ignorance, but I am unable to see how understanding the evolution of the dinoflagellate mitrochondrial genome is relevant to the hermeneutic of continuity.
Would someone please enlighten me ?
One is never too old to learn ..
Reminds me of another joke:
Leonid Brezhnev is trying to seduce a sweet young thing, and he promises her, "I will do anything you say!"
She replies, "Open the borders."
Delighted, he exclaims, "I knew you wanted to be alone with me!"
arkanabar - thanks for that one: very good!
Dr Wright - well actually, if this stuff about microbiology and evolution is true, we need to make sure that we do not simply ditch the philosophia perennis as some wanted to last century but we will need to make room for organic development in philosophical cosmology in continuity with the tradition of the Church.
But also, Edmund is a good friend of this blog and I thought readers would be interested in his travels anyway.
Fr. T.,
Many thanks for explaining things.
I'm all right with cosmology, but when the scientists start using big words they make me feel giddy.
I must return to the safety of the book I'm reading on Aristotelian hylomorphism.
Anyway, some photos from the city of the czars would be very nice ..
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