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Jan.29.2010
I've been thinking about magic. Even though I'm reading Joan Didion's memoir about the year she spent pondering how she might reverse her husband's death, I don't mean that kind of magical thinking.
I'm talking about context. In its absence, everything looks like magic.
David Blaine's recent TEDmed...
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Jan.28.2010
Cork Wins Trophies at BT Scientist
Cork Wins Trophies At BT Science Exhibition by Annette J Dunlea
in Carrigdhoun Newspaper 30th Jan 2010 p.19
BT recently hosted it’s 10th Young Scientist Awards. It attracted 37,000 visitors and over 1,588 projects from the 32 counties. BT announced it evolved its...
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Jan.24.2010
It is now a common practice for first year medical students to take part in a ceremony honoring the donors of cadavers used in dissection for the teaching of anatomy. The manner of the students’ participation is up to them; the reading of poetry, including original poems is not uncommon....
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Jan.22.2010
Here's a reprint of an NPR post and a link to it. It is clear the debate continues between science and religion. I've been blogging about this very thing as we have in our state the infamous Creation Museum. It's a spectacle of nonsense...well...I'll say no more here, since I do so in my blog...
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Jan.15.2010
A doomsday quick-fix prophet on TV last night was holding forth on how the solar eclipse would muck up our lives based on our zodiac signs. After he had told us just how bad it would get, a godman sitting next to him asked us to place a pot and add things in it according to the level of muckery,...
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Jan.06.2010
Above all, I'm a writer, of course. But I have an interest in many of the sciences as well, and have published nine editions of my book series called "EasyTerms" that help students to learn scientific terminology.
Recently, I started a new blog that is, of course, free. It's...
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Jan.06.2010
I found this typewriter hiding in the historic Slipher Building at Lowell Observatory; it used to belong to Wrexie Leonard, Lowell’s secretary (and more). It’s a Hammond portable, housed in a sleek wooden case, and its innards look uncharacteristically light and airy (unlike most vintage office...
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Dec.30.2009
Now I know what once in a blue moon means. On the eve of 2010, if you look up at the sky you might find a moon that appears blue. Of the 12 full moons very year, once between two and three years we get this extra one.
Where does it get its colour from? Scientists say it is due to smoke from fire or...
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Dec.09.2009
suck
my momentum my thoughts my desires my warmth my hope
from my soul
...leave me still
absolute peace
absolute zero
wintered withered vanished vanquished
alone
one
...as one, i desire another
i split
i see my mirror
...and once again forget
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Dec.05.2009
I had a great meeting on Friday with a physicist from the Uni's physics department, briefing me on an upcoming physics conference which he is hoping will inspire me to write some fiction. (This is the first step towards the start of my writer-in-residence position which I will take up at the...
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