About

I am a physicist by training, but an artist by vocation. I have come to see scientists as ripe for Art, both as subject and audience. They have intense inner lives, but very few tools with which to tend them. They stake much of the worth of their souls on the fineness of their inner mechanisms and are expected to mend and nurture themselves with works never meant for them: with church music and Ewoks. The main purpose of this blog is to offer them more substantial fare. Hence the pseudonym: “Para” meaning “as good or better than” (as Paracelsus took his name to mean “At least as good as Celsus”) and “-Sagan” as in “Carl Sagan,” the greatest mythologist of Science in the current era, to whom I have some objections, or cautions.

However, since I am not being paid for this, it will be a place for any other long-ish form writing I want to post somewhere; not just pieces that try to live up to my outrageously arrogant pen name.

There’s going to be a bunch of K-pop/K-drama stuff too. Because that stuff is so fun it’s important.

Find me on Fedi as dogfox [at] kpop.social