Monday, April 27, 2020

My Numismatic Bibliography (Partial List)

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Much can be learned from examinating, comparing, contrasting. sorting, and arranging. It is said that Mendeleev established the periodic tab...
Sunday, April 26, 2020

Mistakes Happen: VAM Varieties (U.S. Silver Dollars According to Van Allen and Mallis)

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This is why coin collectors want electron microscopes. You see, the Mint was forced to strike millions of these, just to consume silver. Th...
Monday, April 13, 2020

M44 Beehive Cluster First Sighting

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As with the Andromeda Galaxy, I was pleasantly surprised and a little crestfallen to discover how easy it was to sight, given that I had nev...
Saturday, April 11, 2020

No One Needs a Computer in Their Home

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“No one needs a computer in their home.” -- Ken Olsen, 1977. What is really funny about that is the way Snopes debunked it back in 2004. ...
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

NYC Covid-19 and Conservative Business Interests

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“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the pub...
Tuesday, March 24, 2020

A Socratic Mob

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Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. -- The Federalist No. 55 Another gener...
Sunday, March 22, 2020

Toxic Leadership

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“You’re fired!” Pres. Donald Trump not only cannot get along with the people he hires, he denies them afterward. He called Gen. Jim Mattis ...
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Rescuing Aristotle and the Church

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Last night, we started watching  Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey  on DVD. Still waiting to finish Episode 1, the narrative has problems. The er...
Sunday, February 16, 2020

World War II Victory Dinner and Dance

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Once again, the Texas Military Forces Museum and the Texas Military Forces Historical Foundation hosted their annual Valentine's Day Swe...