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I'm focusing on 'family stories' at the moment. ("A Change of Pace: Family Stories" (11/23/2024))- Category: Family Stories
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Tag Archives: science
Unidentified Phenomena, Being Human, Taking Reality As-Is
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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OSIRIS-REx’s SRC is Back: Snapshots from Utah
An ‘up’ side to my parish’s new Mass schedule is that it gets me back home a few minutes after 9:00 a.m. Usually. Today we had a baptism, so it was about 9:30 when I returned. But that left me … Continue reading
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UAPs/UFOs: Collect Data, THEN Draw Conclusions
…NASA’s new UAP report, attitudes, assumptions; and, finally, … the legacy of “Killers from Space”…. Continue reading
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Silly Headlines and Space Aliens, Serious Science and UAPs
Monday, I wondered what I was going to write about this week. Then I read that scientists found methane and carbon dioxide in a not-really-Earth-like planet’s atmosphere — and saw a silly headline or two. Normally, that’d be more than … Continue reading
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Yellowstone: Geysers, Quakes and, Eventually, a Supereruption
I started writing about Yellowstone, hazards, and science a few weeks ago. Then life happened — there’s a link near the end of this post — something more timely came up, and now I’m back with a look at the … Continue reading
