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March 2026

March 25, 2026

“Abraham the Astronomer”

Newly posted today on the completely stagnant website of the Interpreter Foundation -- which,...

June 2025

June 24, 2025

Having fun with two ex-Mormons and the history of astronomy

After considerable discussion that began several months ago and grew more intense within recent...

December 2022

December 29, 2022

Cosmological 1

A recording of this lecture and its text were posted yesterday on the...

August 2022

August 02, 2022

In which I recommend a play and cite a song that supposedly celebrates an acid trip

I hope to see you at the annual FAIR conference this week. It...

July 2022

July 20, 2022

Alcohol, Chocolate, Keeping Promises, and Seeing the Cosmos with the Eye of God

Three new items went up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation yesterday,...

May 2021

May 20, 2021

“Worlds Without Number”

*** A new little essay (by Dr. Jeffrey M. Bradshaw) went up...

September 2020

September 28, 2020

Revision 5.15 “What the West Owes the East” (Navigation, Optics, Chemistry, Astronomy, and Calendrics)

Few readers are surprised, probably, to learn that the name Sahara is Arabic...

September 04, 2020

So what DOES Saturn’s largest moon smell like?

There's good, or at least promising, coronavirus news: "University of Utah Health...

August 2020

August 25, 2020

“How Astronomers Revolutionized Our View of the Cosmos,” Revisited

The current issue of Scientific American contains a clear and approachable summary article by...

August 24, 2020

“How Astronomers Revolutionized Our View of the Cosmos”

The current issue of Scientific American contains a really nice summary article by the...

June 2020

June 08, 2020

“A Planet is Born”

I enjoyed an article in the current issue of Scientific American about "circumstellar...

May 2020

May 20, 2020

Einstein’s big mistake

On pages 89-90, Carlo Rovelli, Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey...

May 07, 2020

“Ancient astronomers of the Colorado Plateau,” living in “A Fortunate Universe”

The latest installment of my regular bi-weekly column in the Deseret News has...

April 2020

April 21, 2020

Say Hello to the “Great Attractor” (Hint: It’s not me)

I think that I'll continue just a bit more with the theme of...

April 19, 2020

“The Spacious Firmament on high”

The Sabbath seems -- especially during a period when we're not getting out...

April 03, 2020

World Views and World Models

I'll be working my way through John D. Barrow, The Book of Universes:...

February 2020

February 08, 2020

Current American politics explained, and other scientific news

Here's a remarkable little essay by the Dutch computer scientist and philosopher Bernardo...

January 2020

January 07, 2020

Ad astra

A very short but fascinating discussion, using pivotal photographs, of some of the...

December 2019

December 31, 2019

“The Outer Solar System: A Window to the Creative Breadth of Divinity”

I call your attention to something that has just been posted on the...

November 2019

November 26, 2019

Some expressions of scientific humility

Here are some brief quotations from Chris Impey, University Distinguished Professor and Deputy Head...

November 14, 2019

“What’s the Best Way to Sail From World to World?”

"Did you miss seeing Mercury transit the sun? Don’t worry, it’ll happen again...

November 13, 2019

“There’s Growing Evidence That the Universe Is Connected by Giant Structures”

This is really quite astonishing. Mind-boggling, in fact: "There’s Growing Evidence That...

October 2019

October 03, 2019

“If we study astronomy, we study the works of God.”

I thought that this was a stimulating read: "Bad Psychology: Why Climate...

March 2019

March 05, 2019

Introducing the Pope’s Planetologists

Yale News: "The case of the over-tilting exoplanets" "The first planet Kepler...

March 10, 2018

“Shadows of Other Worlds” (Part 1)

Joshua N. Winn, an astrophysicist at Princeton University (who, according to the principle...

March 02, 2018

“A piper playing at the gates of dawn”

It seems to have been Pythagoras, in the sixth century BC, who first...

February 2018

February 19, 2018

Visiting the “Cathedral of Astronomy”

After attending the Vista California Stake conference yesterday, where we listened to (among...