Tag Archives: science

Faustus, Valdes and Cornelius: With Friends Like These…

Posted on March 5, 2022 by Brian H. Gill

(From Jürgen Ludwig, via Wikimedia Commons, used w/o permission.) I talked about angels, real and imagined, last month; mentioned Doctor Faustus’ big plans, including putting a brass wall around Germany, and said that I’d talk about Valdes and Cornelius next … Continue reading →

Posted in Discursive Detours, Journal, Marlowe's Faustus, Series | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Opulence in Miniature: Coleen Moore’s Fairy Castle

Posted on February 26, 2022 by Brian H. Gill

(From Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago; used w/o permission.) That’s the great hall in Colleen Moore’s Fairy Castle, a 13-room dollhouse in Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. The museum’s online exhibit page for the great hall opens with … Continue reading →

Posted in Being, Catholic, Discursive Detours, Journal | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Exoplanets, Iron, Evolution and Strange Geochemistry

Posted on January 22, 2022 by Brian H. Gill

Science stories and topics have been piling up in my ‘to do’ list for more than a year. This week, I’m catching up on what we’re learning about life here on Earth; and developments in the ongoing search for extraterrestrial … Continue reading →

Posted in Exoplanets and Aliens, Science News, Series | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Big Planet, Wide Orbit, Unsolved Mystery: b Centauri(AB)b

Posted on December 18, 2021 by Brian H. Gill

Scientists in Sweden, taking part in 2019’s BEAST program that used SPHERE on the VLT discovered an ‘it might be an exoplanet.’ In 2021, they got confirmation. They’d spotted an exoplanet. And SPHERE on the VLT1 has an picture of … Continue reading →

Posted in Exoplanets and Aliens, Science News, Series | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments