Musing on the Near Future
I read an interesting article online today. It is simply the latest in a long set of articles on related topics that have sparked some discussion with people over the last year or so. I want to give...
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Last year, I wrote this post about the increasing danger posed by fundamentalism in the U.S.A. — not Islamic fundamentalism, but so-called Christian fundamentalism, and its threat to science. (And here...
View ArticleSpafford/Spofforth Family History + Trivia
[Updated 8/26/13 to include the contested 21st generation entry and fix small typos.] Intro Recently, my family vacationed in England. While there, we visited the town and castle ruins in Spofforth, a...
View ArticleMusing and Remembering on D-Day
Today is the 70th anniversary of D-Day. 70 years ago, over 100,000 men headed to a very uncertain fate in northern France. Many didn’t know exactly why they were there, other than a sense of duty and...
View ArticleMusing on the Near Future
I read an interesting article online today. It is simply the latest in a long set of articles on related topics that have sparked some discussion with people over the last year or so. I want to give...
View ArticleParanoia or Pattern Recognition?
Last year, I wrote this post about the increasing danger posed by fundamentalism in the U.S.A. — not Islamic fundamentalism, but so-called Christian fundamentalism, and its threat to science. (And here...
View ArticleSpafford/Spofforth Family History + Trivia
[Updated 8/26/13 to include the contested 21st generation entry and fix small typos.] Intro Recently, my family vacationed in England. While there, we visited the town and castle ruins in Spofforth, a...
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