Blog Updates

As a number of people have pointed out to me, I haven't been updating my blog much recently.  This is partly because I got into a more conflicted relationship with publication such that I was withholding a lot of writing I was working on.

But right now I have some time to kill recovering from a nasal surgery a week ago—I wasn't able to breathe through my nose for most of the past 5 years, and now I can, thanks to God and medical care!  I'm feeling great mentally, I just have low physical energy.  So I might try to dig out some old writing and post it now.  If it looks like I am suddenly doing a lot more writing, that's an illusion: I'll mostly be editing old stuff.  But maybe I'll sneak in a new thing or two to keep you on your toes.

There also used to be a system to notify people of new posts by email, but it stopped working a while ago.  The root cause is that I really need to take the plunge and update WordPress to a much newer version so that I can use plugins that are still being maintained.  But I'm a little nervous about losing data so I want to be cautious about it.

On the morning of my surgery, I only had time to read a single blog post, and I providentially stumbled across the following quotation from the Apocrypha:

Honor the physician, for he is essential to you;
for that profession was established by the Lord.
2 The gift of healing comes from the Most High,
and the king provides for the physician’s sustenance.
3 His knowledge gives the physician high standing
and earns him the admiration of those who are great.
4 The Lord has created medicines from the earth,
and no one who is sensible will despise them.
5 Was not water once sweetened by a tree
so that his power might be revealed?
6 He has endowed human beings with skill
so that he might be glorified in his marvelous works.
7 Through them the physician heals and relieves pain,
8 and the pharmacist prepares suitable medicines.
Thus, there is no end to the works of God,
from whom well-being continues to spread throughout the entire world. (Sirach 38)

This seemed providentially appropriate in light of the circumstances...

About Aron Wall

I am a Lecturer in Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. Before that, I read Great Books at St. John's College (Santa Fe), got my physics Ph.D. from U Maryland, and did my postdocs at UC Santa Barbara, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and Stanford. The views expressed on this blog are my own, and should not be attributed to any of these fine institutions.
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