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Triboluminescence in Afghanistan 23 Aug 2013 | 07:10 am
My father was an Army pilot, and flew Chinook helicopters, the helicopter in this picture. The story, from NPR‘s Robert Krulwich Wonders describes lights that appear on certain occasions when Chinooks...
Sakimoto: “The Astronomer’s God” 23 Aug 2013 | 06:52 am
At Ethika Politika: “One reason I took up the pursuit of astronomy was that I wanted to understand everything in the Universe. And, in that case, I meant everything. I said that being an astronomer...
“The View from Space” 7 Aug 2013 | 06:20 pm
My latest for The Catholic Thing is up today: The world of science news, commentary, and blogging has recently been quite interested in a photo released by NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL...
Hyla versicolor 6 Aug 2013 | 07:43 am
We found this tiny fellow sitting on the bricks next to the basement stairwell a few nights ago; a young Hyla versicolor, or Gray Treefrog. Certainly one of the smallest frogs I’ver ever seen in perso...
Feser on Kuhn on Nothing 25 Jul 2013 | 02:56 am
It turns out, there’s still a lot you can say about nothing: “The wary reader might fear that what we have here is a rehash of Krauss’s unhappy speculations about “possible candidates for nothingness...
Getting Older 25 Jul 2013 | 02:53 am
…Life and Man may be, that is. The first story here is from the University of Oregon, where geologists claim to have identified land-dwelling fossils from 2.2 billion years ago, four times older than...
Barr on the Higgs 23 Jul 2013 | 07:15 am
I seem to have missed this interesting post last month at First Things in which Stephen Barr mentions his own small role in working out the possible significance of the finding of the Higgs boson, wit...
Pigliucci, Dawkins, Transubstantiation, & Samuel Johnson 23 Jul 2013 | 02:46 am
Philosopher Massimo Pigliucci writes a post at his blog Rationally Speaking regarding the supernatural, and discusses some specifically Catholic ideas in so doing. Now, Pigliucci is also a naturalist ...
Neptune’s Newest Moon 18 Jul 2013 | 05:45 am
Source: Hubblesite.org The outer solar system continues to reveal its population. Last week we had the naming of Pluto’s two most recently discovered moons. Now, a tiny new moon has been found orbiti...
Notable Quote: Lumen fidei 16 Jul 2013 | 03:16 am
“Nor is the light of faith, joined to the truth of love, extraneous to the material world, for love is always lived out in body and spirit; the light of faith is an incarnate light radiating from the ...
