I have friends with telescopes and I love the website APOD, Astronomy Picture of the Day.*** The original pictures on the site were often NASA or JPL, but nowadays the pictures are just as often from non-NASA personnel, amateur photographers with their telescopes out chasing astronomical phenomena. They take some brilliant pictures. All the same, [...]
Tales of the United States Space Force: 23 Stories and Mythbusting Articles by: (long list of authors) I recently read this somewhat mixed anthology and I had somewhat mixed feelings. The book is about the new branch of the armed services called the Space Force. One of the articles in this anthology explains exactly how [...]
In my past life as a teacher I used to hear graduating 8th graders talk about how they wanted to change the world. The terms they used were very general, and I wasn’t in the business of saying, “Don’t be ridiculous,” to earnest students who were leaving for high school. But these were teenagers who [...]
I ended up with a lot of arthritis pain, visited the doctor, and got distracted. So a few random comments today. First -- a lovely quote “Man is not a mind that thinks, but a being who know other beings as true, who loves them as good, and who enjoys them as beautiful.” from Etienne [...]
My sister Mary’s birthday was June 10, 1947. She has another birthday now on November 21, 2020, the Feast of the Presentation of Our Lady. I was thinking of her, yesterday, and wondering idly which saints had a feast day on June 10. I knew that June has some amazing saints. A simple saint calendar [...]
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