Risks, Statistics, and Shameful Truth
Warning: Reading this may cause you to be exposed to college-level statistics concepts.
Life consists of assessing the risks of any situation and making a decision about what to do. It doesn’t matter whether you are going to the grocery store, planning a political campaign, or designing a mission to Mars. There are no risk-free alternatives in life.
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Were Adam and Eve Neandertals?
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The February Triple Crown
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Disease of the Soul
In a sermon January 3, I mentioned some statistics about children in the United States including childhood obesity which is, sadly, a rapidly growing problem. Later that week, a friend who heard the sermon and who is also a pediatrician mentioned an academic study about childhood obesity. I was aware of the general results of this study, but my friend went into detail.
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What a Wonderful World
In the wake of this week’s reprehensible political violence, I needed a side trip off the planet. No, I haven’t gone to the pearly gates, but I recently became aware of Mexican theoretical physicist, Miguel Alcubierre Moya[1], who has solved a specific case for Einstein’s field equations in general relativity to develop a serious proposal for matter traveling Faster Than Light (FTL).
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“What hath God wrought?”
This quotation from the book of Numbers was suggested by the daughter of the Patent Office Commissioner in 1844 as the first message sent by Morse code from a demonstration before the US Congress to a railroad station in Baltimore. The quote is my question in revisiting the tired old debate about climate change. Is the observable warming of the planet “anthropogenic” (human-caused) or “natural”?
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Make straight in the desert a highway …
We hear these words of Isaiah in the Messiah and other church hymns this time of year. We are to clear a path in our souls for God’s return to us in judgement. But did you know we are discovering highways in space?
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RIP Arecibo
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Hopeful and Funny
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The Last Ice Age
There are a variety of truly natural oscillations in our planet’s orbital journey that lead to periodic variations in global weather or climate Change. We can observe these true “natural variations” in different geological records. In fact, this year and for the near future, we should be experiencing a downward cooling trend in temperatures instead of the relentless upward trends caused by anthropogenic warming. Let’s take a look at global conditions during the last “Glacial Maximum” period which lasted from 23,000 years ago to 19,000 years ago. Yes, these natural variations last a long time compared to the span of a human lifetime, but from a geological perspective, such cycles and eras are the blink of an eye.
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