There’s an idea floating around that science is all about experiments, in fact, that without experiments, there is no science. Certainly, experimentation is right up there, at the highest level of science, but there are whole branches of science where experimentation is not possible. Geology is one of them. No one is doing experimental continental [...]
Today is my last physical therapy appointment for my hip. Probably. Not the end of PT in my life because in a year or so, when the hip is completely stabilized, I'll have to deal with my back problems. Spinal columns are supposed to look like ... columns ... not stacked beads. But today is [...]
Forty-five years ago I bought a ‘portable’ table loom. I was living in Seattle and the local Rasmussen looms were a Thing in certain circles. It was an outrageous purchase even at the time but I didn’t care. I was entranced by the idea of making cloth. I also had the idea at the time [...]
Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788 — 1827)was a Catholic scientist in France in the early 1800’s. He made incredible contributions to the understanding of light, being one of the earliest and best champions of the idea that light is a waveform. He entered the French school for engineers around 1804 and then served in the engineering corps [...]
Project Gutenberg is a wondrous place to visit if you are the kind of person who needs words to flow across eyes, sometimes without much regard for the actual topic, so to speak. You know, the people who read the milk carton and cereal box at the breakfast table and learn to spell homogenized and [...]
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