On finding lost books – Or, scientists and sin
Lost and found When we returned last year to our winter retreat in Arizona after absence due to COVID-19 and other matters, I got into books I’d put in storage there. One I’d forgotten was a collection of Robert Oppenheimer’s post-war essays titled The Open...
A clearer view of elusive Higgs particle could reopen origins dialogue
The theoretical and elusive Higgs Boson particle is one step closer to being discovered and is still being referred to as the “God” particle as a way to communicate its role as a building block of the universe although that was not the original intention of physicists.
April – between memory and hope
April brings warming days and signs of Spring’s fertility. We associate April with hopefulness — cold wintry days are only a memory. But what is happening in the world around us can sometimes dash our joy and hopes. When the poet T. S. Eliot, was writing in the early...
Keeping an eye on the public faith/science dialogue
The man that brought us the famous quote of the medium is the message in the 1970s, Marshall McLuhan, also is quoted as saying in a speech in the pre-Internet era that: “We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.” It certainly...
