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2014-04-20T00:40:35Z
By Way of Science
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2014-04-20T00:40:35Z
2012-03-09T19:50:12Z
<p>What does this name “By Way of Science” mean anyway?</p>
<p><img src="http://kitenet.net/~kyle/BWoS.jpg" alt="By Way of Science" align="right" />
I was inspired by the fantastic Julie Miller song <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/by-way-of-sorrow/id300705002?i=300705006&ign-mpt=uo%3D4">“By Way of Sorrow.”</a> Despite having no particular relevance for what I’m about here on this blog, I’m also a fan of modern folk music, and so a tip of the hat to Julie for this great song. (A further hat tip to the folk “supergroup” Cry Cry Cry, who first <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/by-way-of-sorrow/id326890174?i=326890196&ign-mpt=uo%3D4">exposed me</a> to this song.)</p>
<p>In some ways, the lyrics of the song also echo my own journey in science.</p>
<blockquote><p>You have come by way of sorrow<BR>
You have come by way of tears<BR>
But you'll reach your destiny<BR>
Meant to find you all these years<BR></p></blockquote>
<p>And further, everything about the way I see the world has been colored by the fact that I come “by way of science.” There's a pun in there also-("byway" vs "by way")-and this gets at the fact that I would like to drift down some of the lesser-traveled paths in science with this blog.</p>
<p>Nicely also captured in this phrase is my feeling that I’ve come “by way of science” to other places as well… to a full experience of life in all its richness and all its ways of knowing.</p>
<p><img src="http://kitenet.net/~kyle/kyle.gif" alt="Kyle" /></p>
<p><small>©<a href="http://bywayofscience.branchable.com/tags/BWoS/../../licensing/">2012</a> K.S. MacLea, Ph.D.</small></p>