Pictures from the National Gallery of Art...
Catholic scientists and the Easter calendar
“Theory can be very useful as a way of piecing together what is unusual … It can help us interpret what we are finding. It can also lead to dead ends and wasted time and resources.” https://almatcboykin.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/making-bog-bodies-dull/ Two Catholic scientists from the 1400’s spent their lives working on a celestial problem using theories based upon [...]
What is sight?
I remember my mother telling me that objects don’t really have color. The blue I see on a street sign is really just light bouncing off the sign and entering my eyes. My brain interprets those particular rays as blue because of the way they bounce. The blue is in my eyes not on the [...]
Sourtough sourdough plus vocabulary…
I started making sourdough bread five years ago when yeast wasn’t readily available in grocery stores (during the pandemic). At that time I learned to make a basic loaf and somehow made it work in ways that I can’t repeat now. I had a rhythm going that kept the starter alive, and could make some [...]
Writer is blocked
Have a picture today. O Sek Bang, Korean artist. From the Dayton library collection/exhibit.
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