Ever since Don worked for InterVarsity planning the big Urbana conference, he’s known how to secure university housing. Tonight we’ll rent a dorm room at the University of Montana in Missoula.
Author Archives: Jennifer Follis
Buffalo in Yellowstone
Bison stop the traffic.
Cascade Canyon hike to Lake Solitude
Crazy Horse
The bluffs at Fort Robinson, Crawford, Nebraska. Crazy Horse was killed at the fort.
East to West across Nebraska
The 100th meridian runs north/south through the middle of Nebraska, where the United States divides east from west. It shows.
Just east of Chadron, Nebraska
Mystery plant reveals itself
This vine volunteered in my garden this spring. I hoped it might be that delicious variety of cucumber I grew last year. Alas, it is fruit of the squirrels, who planted my fall pumpkin without even trying. It likes the heat. It may cover my entire yard by the time I get home in August.
Higgs boson explained by PhD Comics
PhD Comics explanation of Higgs boson. The animation helps me understand the vocabulary. If you already know about bottom quarks and their ilk, you might like this anyway.
Science and language dance the two-step
Two is the number. Roy Peter Clark is on to something. The “unified theory of writing”combines science and words in a way that strikes me as just right. http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/newsgathering-storytelling/writing-tools/180084/can-we-figure-out-a-unified-theory-of-writing/
Rocky Mountain Loop
In 10 days, Don and I plan to leave for Grand Teton National Park, then north to Glacier, Banff and Jasper. From there, we’ll go east across Canada and south through Minnesota to home. We plan to be gone for three weeks.
Baseball Prospectus | Baseball ProGUESTus: Global Warming and Home Runs: Is There a Connection?
This scientist understands the power of a “news peg.” What will people be talking about? Figure that out, and you have a hook for teaching physics, and lots of other things. Add “global warming” and you get lots of hits.
Nathan is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After a long career doing collisions of subatomic particles, he now spends his time studying the collision of ash with cowhide. He maintains an oft-visited website devoted to all things related to the physics of baseball: go.illinois.edu/physicsofbaseball.
via Baseball Prospectus | Baseball ProGUESTus: Global Warming and Home Runs: Is There a Connection?.
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