A star (system?) named T Coronae Borealis, also known as TCrB, is due to brighten this year, after an eighty year hiatus. TCrB is a double star system, consisting of a red giant and white dwarf. It is not normally visible to the naked eye. The extra brightness is scheduled to last for a week, [...]
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Happy Feast of Saint Joseph!
State of the Writer in March I’ve been working on some serious sewing, since the Arlington Diocese seminarian class of 2025 is successfully steering through the last days before ordination as deacons. Next year, priests! God willing. Until I had close contact with a seminarian, I didn’t really understand deacons at all. We had a [...]
Dr. John Aloysius O’Keefe, Catholic scientist
Once upon a time … that’s how I’ve begun to think about Dr. John Aloysius O’Keefe III, and his career as an astrophysicist. I have stories about him in my head that are quite clearly mixed up. He went to Harvard as an undergraduate and tangled with the head of the Astronomy Department there, as [...]
The generous gift of a book…
I commented recently on the book The Strange Case of Dr. Couney — How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies by Dawn Raffel. At that point I hadn’t read it, but now, through a generous gift, I have. Read. This. Book. Dr. Martin Couney was mysterious because he changed his name several [...]
Silk or ???
More on that wedding dress. I washed it in Dawn soap and then let it soak in a diluted solution of a commercial product that uses hydrogen peroxide and is not named Oxyclean. This took out a lot of the brown discoloration in the fabric. I was thinking of it as linen at that moment, [...]
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