I was strolling through Caroline Furlong’s blog archives (https://carolinefurlong.wordpress.com/) and came across a review she had written in May of 2023. It’s about a book written in 2018 by Dawn Raffel, an author I had never heard of (I haven’t heard of lots of people …) titled The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a [...]
Category: science and engineering
People my father knew
By devious ways over the past week I came to find a paper entitled The 1920 Shapley-Curtis Discussion:Background, Issues, and Aftermath, Virginia Trimble. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Vol. 107, pages 1133-1144, December 1995 1995PASP..107.1133T This paper discusses something called The Great Debate of 1920 wherein two astronomers, Harlow Shapley and Heber [...]
Why did I write that?
My father did a lot of writing in his life. Mostly non-fiction. Two things he said about writing in general have stuck with me. Number One is “Don’t get it right, get it written.” For someone who strove to write what he thought was true, and then defend it, this is a remarkable quote. But [...]
One man — 6,000 meteorites
During the 1970’s and ’80’s the field of meteoritics was totally revolutionized by the sudden collection of thousands and thousands of meteorites from Antarctica. I can’t remember when I first heard about meteorites being found in Antarctica in huge quantities. … That lack of knowledge made for some interesting research when I started trying to [...]
Friday fun — rocks, crops, pumps
Oh! Golly it’s Friday. I was totally immersed in research. Well, so here are my studies for the day. First, continuing my thoughts on meteorites, I discovered that there is a quarry in Sweden where meteorites, that fell hundreds of millions of years ago are preserved in the limestone. We aren’t talking big stuff, but [...]
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