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A NEW DISCOVERY AT STONEHENGE.
A NEW DISCOVERY AT STONEHENGE. I posted here about how excited Annalisa was by the possibilities she imagined in the landscape and barrows near Stonehenge and that “she was sure that there was more to be found by archaeologists.” Ryan … Continue reading
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HOTSPUR POINTS OUT THAT CORRELATION DOES NOT IMPLY CAUSATION.
HOTSPUR POINTS OUT THAT CORRELATION DOES NOT IMPLY CAUSATION. In Henry IV Part I, at IIII, i, 12-21, Owen Glendower says: GLENDOWER I cannot blame him: at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning … Continue reading
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DELPHI—HOW THE GOD APOLLO SPOKE TO THE GREEKS.
DELPHI—HOW THE GOD APOLLO SPOKE TO THE GREEKS. Peter Green has a review in the London Review of Books (July 3) of DELPHI by Michael Scott which puts what seem to be ancient myths in historical perspective. The priestess at … Continue reading
THE STRUGGLE TO GET HOSPITAL PERSONNEL TO WASH THEIR HANDS.
THE STRUGGLE TO GET HOSPITAL PERSONNEL TO WASH THEIR HANDS. This article by Claudia Kalb in Yahoo News tells about the efforts of Vanderbilt University Medical Center to get personnel to wash their hands when they should. The effort began … Continue reading
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TEACHING A BABY BIRD THE FINE POINTS OF FLYING.
TEACHING A BABY BIRD THE FINE POINTS OF FLYING. On our walk the other day, Mary Jane and I saw a small bird take off from a branch, struggle in the breeze to turn and then return to the branch. … Continue reading
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WALT WHITMAN AND THE LEARNED ASTRONOMER (COMMENT).
WALT WHITMAN AND THE LEARNED ASTRONOMER (COMMENT). After the announcement of the experiment which claimed to have found information about what had happened an instant after the Big Bang, I posted here on Walt Whitman’s poem “When I heard the … Continue reading
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TRYING TO AVOID COSMIC DUST.
TRYING TO AVOID COSMIC DUST. This article by Willliam Herkewitz on the Popular Mechanics website (link via Instapundit) provides some helpful explanation for laymen about the status of the effort to find information about the 380,000 years just after the … Continue reading
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INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED AN INSTANT AFTER THE BIG BANG—A CORRECTION.
INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED AN INSTANT AFTER THE BIG BANG—A CORRECTION. I posted here in March about an experiment which seemed to have provided information about the universe only 10 to the minus thirty-fifth seconds after the Big Bang. This … Continue reading
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IN DEFENSE OF UGLY PROOFS.
IN DEFENSE OF UGLY PROOFS. Ball draws attention to the ugliness of the proofs of Fermat’s Last Theorem and the Four Color theorem. Yet, perhaps it is simply the case that art critics have not yet created an esthetic defense … Continue reading
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WHAT IS SCIENTIFIC BEAUTY, ANYWAY?
WHAT IS SCIENTIFIC BEAUTY, ANYWAY? Philip Ball asks how scientists define beauty (“We have to ask: what is this beauty they keep talking about?”). He posits that simplicity and symmetry go into a scientist’s idea of beauty. Ball describes two … Continue reading
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