Tag Archives: God

Eclipse 2024: Science, the News, Faith, and Me 0 (0)

Next week’s solar eclipse won’t be total here in central Minnesota. I’m not terribly disappointed, since the odds are that I couldn’t see it anyway. There’s rain in the five-day forecast. We need rain a great deal more than I … Continue reading

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Hearing the Universe, Touching the Stars 0 (0)

A musician who’s also a scientist found music in TRAPPIST-1 data. Meanwhile, 3D models help folks ‘see’ galaxies: and I found a Lenten connection in all that. Sonification and Switching Senses for Science I’d planned on geeking out over music, … Continue reading

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Cancer in the Family 5 (1)

First, the good news. Our number-two daughter’s cancer is slow-growing. The not-so-good news is that it’s aggressive. And, of course, that she’s got cancer. I learned about the cancer in early January.1 The family knows a little more now, and … Continue reading

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Unidentified Phenomena, Being Human, Taking Reality As-Is 0 (0)

NASA’s “UAP Independent Study Team Report” used the words stigma, destigmatize, or destigmatizing about a dozen times. At 31 mostly-text pages, that works out to one of those words every two and a half pages. That’s nowhere near the frequency … Continue reading

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Fusion Rocket Engines, SETI and Science: Seriously 0 (0)

Nerd alert! This week I used words like deuterium and magnetohydrodynamics. And I may have gone into more detail that necessary about why we didn’t have fusion power generators in the 1960s. A British company’s plans for test-firing a fusion … Continue reading

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