Wednesday, November 23, 2022

The Great Gatsby an Alternate View and an Alternate History

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The family is reading  The Great Gatsby.  It is something new for us. About 12 years ago our daughter and I read  The Sun Also Rises . After...
Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Lunar Eclipse 8 November 2022

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This was the last total Lunar eclipse until 14 March 2025. I got out early and took my time. Other snapshots have gone better.  These were t...
Sunday, October 23, 2022

Value and Worth

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“What’s it worth?” Bill Bradford ( Wikipedia here )  asked me. That was about 1976 in his store, Liberty Coins, on Abbott Road in East Lansi...
Saturday, October 22, 2022

Footnotes on Number Theory

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I love to watch the odometer. It is not always convenient to stop and take a picture.   186285 miles were 1 Light Second Kaprekar’s Constant...
Friday, October 21, 2022

Halloween 2022 on Brandi Circle

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  We have dresseed for Halloween in years past. Being in costume makes it fun to give out treats. This year, among a dozen knickknacks, I bo...
Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Fountain Pens

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Like dressing for dinner, writing with a fountain pen helps you to be at your best. The direct descendent of the reed, it is the modern quil...
Tuesday, October 4, 2022

A Conservative Against the Constitution

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Commentator Daniel Greenfield is featured on PolitiChicks ( https://politichicks.com ). He provides readers with insights and outlook agains...
Sunday, October 2, 2022

Kyle Astronomy Club: International Observe the Moon Night

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The City of Kyle Public Library Astronomy Club sponsored a community outreach for International Observe the Moon Night, 1 October 2022. Half...
Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Sociology is a Science

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Not usually my favorite scientist, I enjoyed Neil deGrasse Tyson interviewed by Ben Shapiro mostly because I agreed with Tyson and I was imp...
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Lack of Religion is not the Presence of Science

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Recent polls from the Pew Trust and Gallup assert that 30% of Americans self-identify as Not Religious along the spectrum from Atheist to Do...
Monday, August 29, 2022

A New Microscope

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To support my emotional buy-in to my most important medications , I responded to an email from AmScope. I shopped for a binocular microscop...