Time for the fudge recipe that was requested during Lent… My mother was allergic to everything. Hence, she did not use milk or cream in her fudge recipe. She also was a very busy woman, taking care of nine children on zero money. So no frills, like constant beating of the fudge to give it [...]
Another celestial event and a link to a great homily …(Update: pics)
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, [...]
One story from ordination weekend…
A five-year old counting to twelve, every time all the candidates moved around. Then he kept track of each time all twelve had to do something, individually. There are eight or ten of those moments, and after the first two, he knew when it would be his uncle’s turn, which person went before his uncle, [...]
Michel-Eugene Chevreul, French Catholic scientist
Michel-Eugene Chevreul was a French chemist who lived to be 103 (1786—1889). The Catholic Encyclopedia at New Advent* calls him a physicist, and philosopher, as well as chemist. His work on fats and fatty acids was so useful to the French soap and candle industries in the 19th century that he is one of the [...]
Incense and Foucault’s pendulum
Leon Foucault, a self-taught scientist of the 1800’s, invented the Foucault pendulum as a demonstration of the rotation of the earth. He took advantage of the fact that pendulums do not like to change the plane in which they are swinging. He saw this effect first with a bit of metal sticking out of the [...]
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