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The Measure of Mayhem

Mitch Smith

Feb 3, 2026 • 5 min read

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Old Woods

I was sitting by the edge of the meadow when I heard it fall. Just sitting, in a Zen sort of trance, in one of those folding camp chairs, the kind that has some nylon pack cloth strung onto an accordion frame of lightweight metal tubing, which can articulate open

Aug 25, 2026 4 min read

Bifurcations

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler -- Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken A bifurcation is the point at which a dynamic system undergoes an irreversible division into two separate pathways with qualitatively different behaviors. It results from

Aug 18, 2026 9 min read

For a World in Flames

"IC 405?" asked Max. "Are you sure?" "The Flaming Star Nebula. Yes, I'm sure. I need to see it." "Okay," he replied. "It does seem appropriate." And then, as an aside, he added, "You know, you could

Aug 11, 2026 10 min read

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