Instead of writing a blog, I was a substitute teacher today. Fridays start with Mass and, when I took the students I was responsible for over to the church, I felt a bit of homesickness. I spent nearly 12 years going to Mass in that church, on Fridays, with students. I spent nine of those [...]
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Cameras that click
Update on this article (5/1). I had two different things on my mind and did not get them separated! Let's try again. There's been a lot of talk in the news about new Artificial Intelligence entities that do pictures or words. People worry about whether they will take over the world or cause all artists [...]
An Easter picture and an old picture.
I'm in the middle of thinking about Saint Bernard and reading the lovely book George sent me about Dante and astronomy but not ready to write. So today two pictures. One from the Episcopalian cathedral several years ago at Easter. And two, a picture of Thor when he was a baby... ; ) (I think [...]
Guest Post: Dr. Lucy Hancock on dust rings around Earth (bumped)
This is the presentation Dr. Lucy Hancock gave at a session on space weather at the Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society's session on Space Weather, in January, 2022. Dr. Hancock presented an anomaly in solar radiation data, and suggested it be explained as the effect of space dust shading the line of sight [...]
Spinning is medieval but…
When I was nineteen I worked at the Natural History Museum, part of the Smithsonian Institution in DC, for the summer. I was an intern for a meteoriticist, someone who worked on meteorites, not the weather. The job was interesting of itself, but I also went out at lunch and wandered around other museums. The [...]
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