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Sic transit gloria mundi 27 Aug 2013 | 11:21 am
History lies thick on the ground here. The archeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula lists 1,572 sites of historical interest, many of them thousands of years old. Shell middens, megalithic tombs, ...
Helios 26 Aug 2013 | 10:41 am
What is this extraordinary object with the black bullet hole? It is, as you probably guessed, the Sun. The image was made in three wavelengths of ultraviolet light by the Earth-orbiting Solar Dynamic...
The Warrior 25 Aug 2013 | 11:55 am
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The web of being -- a Saturday reprise 24 Aug 2013 | 12:23 pm
Ah, yes, the divine Dante. Even in his lifetime he was recognized as the prince of poets. His great work, the Divine Comedy, seemed to his contemporaries almost miraculous, a judgment that endures to ...
Seeing 23 Aug 2013 | 10:53 am
Elizabeth Bishop has a poem about a sandpiper, a tiny shore bird scurrying forward and reverse with the lick and ebb of the tide. It was not the sandpiper I thought of today as I walked the beach, but...
Cherubic propulsion 22 Aug 2013 | 10:37 am
I was talking last week to another American here in the village, younger than me. It transpired that he was on his way to church to celebrate the Feast of the Assumption, a Holy Day of Obligation, whe...
Yet… 21 Aug 2013 | 10:41 am
"My suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose." J. B. S. Haldane Legend has it that after reciting his official recantation, kneeling on the f...
Beauty and the beast 20 Aug 2013 | 10:32 am
Help! We are being devoured by beauty. First, they ingratiated themselves by a shy display of elegance. And a perfect sense of timing. They bloom July to September, just when we are in residence. A m...
Matters of fact 19 Aug 2013 | 10:38 am
When we were a young married couple living in England, my wife insisted on visiting the cottage of T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") deep in rural Dorset, now in the care of the Natural Trust. Ove...
Parable 18 Aug 2013 | 11:25 am
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