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February 2010

February 11, 2010

Still snowed in

It snowed all day Wednesday--giving us another 10 inches or more on top of the...

February 10, 2010

Snowed in yet AGAIN

It seems like only yesterday that I was enjoying the peace and serenity of being...

February 09, 2010

No snow for the Winter Olympics?

The Winter Olympics start in four days, but Vancouver, Canada, where the games are scheduled...

February 06, 2010

Safe topic

Snowed in this weekend. Again. We are supposed to get from 20 to 30 or...

January 2010

January 20, 2010

How God is in the world

Longtime Cranach reader and commenter Dan Kempen "got" yesterday's post Makoto Fujimura on art, paganism,...

January 15, 2010

Horrors in Haiti

Just 750 miles from the U.S.A., the people of Haiti are enduring more horrors in...

January 14, 2010

Matt Harrison on the earthquake in Haiti

Thousands have died in the Haiti earthquake, maybe as many as half a million. The...

January 13, 2010

Pray for Haiti

That poor country: A major earthquake struck southern Haiti on Tuesday, knocking down buildings and...

January 07, 2010

Those multiple universes

The respectable Scientific American has an article on multiple universes, also known as the Multiverse:...

December 2009

December 28, 2009

The context of Climategate

Defenders of the climate scientists whose embarrassing e-mails have cast doubt on their work are...

December 23, 2009

When those who agree can’t agree

The Copenhagen summit called by the United Nations to put together a global response to...

December 22, 2009

Climategate and Wikipedia

More climate research manipulation, this time on the most used and the most easily-abused source...

December 21, 2009

The blizzard of ’09

On Friday night, we had nearly a foot of snow, and then on Saturday it...

December 21, 2009

Climategate scandal gets a Russian front

New fronts are opening up in the Climategate scandal. One is a Russian front. A...

December 17, 2009

Climate nihilism

Anne Applebaum finds that the scare tactics of the climate alarmists have reached her children:...

December 16, 2009

Conservation & conservatism

Commenters on yesterday's post about Environmentalism as the new socialism cited the need to articulate...

December 15, 2009

Environmentalism as the new socialism

Reflecting on the government power grabs being recommended at the Copenhagen climate summit, Charles Krauthammer...

December 11, 2009

The uncaused first cause

Tulane physicist Frank J. Tipler tosses off an interesting variation, using contemporary mathematics and physics,...

December 08, 2009

Carbon Dioxide as a dangerous substance

Here is a big danger of our current governmental structure: If the Executive branch cannot...

December 07, 2009

Adapting to global warming

Today the nations of the world meet in Copenhagen to attempt to forge agreements to...

November 2009

November 27, 2009

“The data are surely wrong”

Another Climategate e-mail, the best one yet: The fact is that we can’t account for...

November 25, 2009

Climategate e-mails

Hackers broke into the computers of some prominent global warming scientists, whose e-mails show them...

November 09, 2009

Our squirrelly Sunday

Sunday was one of the oddest days I have ever known. It was our grandson's...

October 2009

October 20, 2009

Human devolution

An anthropologist has documented a remarkable physical decline in modern man: Many prehistoric Australian aboriginals...

October 16, 2009

Particle collider zapped from the future?

You know that new particle collider that was supposed to isolate the Higgs boson, the...

October 07, 2009

The problem of pleasure

The Reese's Peanut Butter Cup post made me recall a C. S. Lewis quip, which...

October 07, 2009

The caps on chromosomes

It's Nobel Prize season, a time to salute good scholarship and, even more, to marvel...

September 2009

September 24, 2009

India probe finds water on the moon

A lunar probe sent off by India has found evidence that the moon has water....

September 11, 2009

Butterfly in space

Here is a beautiful, evocative picture taken by the Hubble telescope. vast streams of gas...

September 01, 2009

Photograph of a molecule

Scientists for the first time have managed to take a photographic image of a single...