Monday, May 31, 2021

Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos

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The writing is direct, intended for the interested and educated general reader.  I learned a lot, of course, though I did have some quibbles...
Sunday, May 30, 2021

Steven J. Dick’s Discovery and Classification in Astronomy

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Thomas Jefferson did not say that it “was easier to believe that two Yankee professors could lie than to admit that stones could fall from h...
Saturday, May 29, 2021

$2500 Viewed Through a Telescope

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I went 35 years without a telescope. Back in 1980, at Lansing Community College, to be employed as a lab aide, I added a couple of independe...
Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Westrum’s “Three Cultures” Organizational Typology

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Ronald Mark Westrum’s typology of organizations is an investigation of information flow in order to understand how groups thrive, survive, o...
Sunday, May 9, 2021

Constellation Corvus and Delta Corvi

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Last week, I went out on a nominally clear night to see if I could find the Virgo Cluster of galaxies. I could not. But there was a very app...
Monday, April 19, 2021

To Explain the World by Steven Weinberg

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Write about what you know. Write from your experience. Those two mandates are easily given to anyone who wants to write for a living. They a...
Sunday, April 18, 2021

Liza Mundy Breaks the Code and Misses the Message

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Write about what you know. Write from your experience. Those two mandates are easily given to anyone who wants to write for a living. They a...