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Friday, April 10, 2015

About Science…II

Well, well…What started out simply as an answer to a very good question by Krisles actually got some readers and generated interesting responses, among them a fascinating thing by Pat about ‘solar roadways’… But this is little series (if it turns into that) is not about applied science, but about... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, April 9, 2015

About Science…

This may bore some of you – but it may be of interest to some others… In a comment yesterday, Krisles, who is always tremendously stimulating, asked a really interesting question! It’s a question that many people might want to ask, though never quite get around to formulating…it’s a question that... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, April 8, 2015

I find this exciting…

Though it may well be a yawner to most, LOL. The famous CERN Accelerator that helped us find the Higgs boson is now geared up to look for Dark Matter, the invisible stuff that makes up roughly 84 per cent of the Universe! So how do we know it’s there if we can’t see it? Elementary, my dear Watson –... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Response-to-Comments Day…

I don’t feel all that comfortable in the role of Cassandra – wrong sex for one thing, and if I am to be raped I could think of a woman instead of being ravished by a guy like Ajax! And I also like to be believed once in a while… Be that as it may, this is a kind of follow-up to my ‘Kindergarten’... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, April 5, 2015

And then there was Ben…Bennie and the Robin

Having told you yesterday about ‘The Trouble with Bennie’, today I must tell you about a moment that made me smile and even wonder… We had gone to the park early – everything is happening early since later we’re expecting guests. We had taken a ball along, of course, and since the snow has finally... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, April 4, 2015

And then there was Ben…

Confession time – maybe because it’s Easter! I have always thought of Easter as a time for confessions, aside from being a time for bunnies and Easter eggs and daffodils and Easter bonnets – Mom always had a magnificent new hat for Easter… And although this is, or should be, really Bennie’s... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, April 1, 2015

The Wasteland...

A couple of years ago I spent a number of posts on one of the most important poems of the 20 th century, T.S Eliot’s The Wasteland. I am almost embarrassed saying that since I really hate clichés, but sometimes they simply express a truth. The last time I posted it in my poetry blog, but today I’m... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, March 26, 2015

“US Allies at War”…

That’s what flashed across the screen after I turned to CNN, and before the forever annoying Wolfie B. began making his own speeches as he was attempting to interview the Saudi Ambassador… I had actually planned to post some fun stuff for Krisles and Pat – but then this came up... What’s happening... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Today a Potpourri…

TAPS left me a great comment! It was a quote: The biggest terrorist is the God of the Quran....The more you follow the steps of the prophet of Islam and the god of Islam, the more you get close to being a terrorist. ~ Mosab Hassan Yousef I couldn’t have said it better myself, LOL! But you may... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

A bit of Scripture…

"If suicide is prohibited, how come we get all these suicide bombers? Surely there's nothing in the Koran that allows that..." We were having a beer; and even though we had been talking about pleasant things earlier, among them our doggies (he’s got a Bernese Mountain Dog), he absolutely had to veer... Sign in to see full entry.

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