Today is Monday, the second of August, 2021. Shalom Aleichem! Day 23,153 Seventeen days until S’s birthday! Today is what I consider to be my first official day of retirement. Yesterday evening was strange, because I didn’t know how to feel. I’m used to having this, “tomorrow is Monday and I don’t want to go […]

Who God Is Gonna Use — Reveling In the Overflowing Grace of God

The IOC is worried about the ageing television audience for the Games, as well as the legacy of Olympism – its promotion of sports as a key to a balanced lifestyle and harmonious development. Source: As young people tune out, can Olympics vault over the generation gap? | South China Morning Post Opinion: The Olympics, […]

As young people tune out, can Olympics vault over the generation gap? | South China Morning Post | Opinion — Earthpages.org 🌐

In their previous post, Leo Tiokhin, Karthik Panchanathan, Paul Smaldino and Daniel Lakens argued that the predominant focus on scientists’ direct contributions has detrimental effects on collaboration, well-being, and scientific progress more broadly. In this post, drawing on examples from several competitive and selective environments, they adopt an evolutionary perspective to suggest that changing the…

Why indirect contributions matter for science and scientists (II) — Impact of Social Sciences

For our 2020 Advent Calendar, we will be sharing snowy and wintery scenes from our Photographic Collections each day leading up to Christmas. Snow covered North Street, St Andrews, 1891 (ID: JV-14203-B). A coloured postcard from the James Valentine Photographic Collection. Valentines of Dundee produced prints and then postcards of topographical views for the emerging…

Advent Calendar 2020: Winter Wonderland — Special Collections blog

Rogers Hornsby has been called one of the greatest hitters in the history of Major League Baseball. He was an infielder, playing second base, shortstop and third base. Hornsby was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1942. He was born on April 27, 1896 in Winters, Texas and died in Chicago, Illinois at […]

Rogers Hornsby — Texas History Notebook

This is from my daily Greek exercise of sight reading, courtesy of Vincent S Artale Jr. Our text is from the Greek translation of Matthew 1:21.  Here is my translation: “τέξεται δὲ υἱόν, καὶ καλέσεις τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Ἰησοῦν· αὐτὸς γὰρ σώσει τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ but she will bear a son, and you will call […]

Quick Devotional from Matthew 1:21 (Observation from the Greek) — The Domain for Truth

Hall of Fame season is about to heat up, and before we get into covering the candidates (and the insufferable voters), I decided to highlight a guy I just stumbled across recently. I was perusing a list of the pitchers throughout history who have posted a 300K season. For reference, since 1900, there have been […]

The Greatest Pitcher You’ve Never Heard Of — Hi-Top Table Athletics

Everyone loves lasers. And the only thing better than a bunch of lasers is a bunch of lasers on one of the world’s (soon to be) largest telescopes, the E-ELT. Well, maybe a bunch of lasers on a time-travelling T. Rex that appears in your observatory and demands to know the locations and trajectories of…

A New Artist’s Illustration of the Extremely Large Telescope. So Many Lasers — Universe Today