Wondrous Nonet
by Kevin T. McEneaney Unstable mesons form an octet, yet can be nonet with quark since they can be split into an octet plus singlet. This seems weird at…
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July 9, 2020
Theater
Center for Performing Arts: A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare. July 7 – 18: Tue, Wed, Thurs, Fri & Sat @7pm. Tickets: $20
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July 2, 2020
The Science and The Anti-Science
by Bill Schlesinger Science is facing a deepening crisis in America. Despite our best efforts to increase funding for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education to train a new…
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July 1, 2020
Irish Halo Nonet
Irish Halo Nonet
by Kevin T. McEneaney
Franks complained of the Irish tonsure,
correct Easter calculation,
and insistence on penance
during medieval times,
yet adopted Irish
architecture.
Tonsure ran
ear to
ear.
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June 30, 2020
Magic Emanating from Stissing Center
By Kevin T. McEneaney The Stissing Center—like many other music and theatre venues—has opened its doors via the Internet. The Saturday evening concert at 4:30 pm featured soprano Lucy Fitz…
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June 28, 2020
Nonet in Cyan
by Kevin T. McEneaney Mysterious planet Uranus, Mediterranean water where Homer sailed to Delos before he became blind, cornflower magic by the roadside, where sunken treasure lies.
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June 25, 2020
Drought and Desertification
by Bill Schlesinger Thirty years ago, a NASA scientist, Dave Rind, published a paper showing the enhanced likelihood of droughts with global warming. His view was prescient. Rind reasoned…
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June 22, 2020
Blind Nonet
by Kevin T. McEneaney As I write this line on paper pad, trillions of unseen neutrinos have passed through my brain and heart. Scientists estimate six billion earth-like planets in…
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June 20, 2020
Nonet in Purple
by Kevin T. McEneaney Building a house for purple martin, dye from a spiny sea snail gland, blackberry, or mulberry, horse tails dipped in purple notes the Iliad, grape hyacinth,…
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June 10, 2020
Biodiversity Bottlenecks
by Chuck Cannon Over the past couple of centuries, we have witnessed a dramatic decline in wildlife populations (1, 2) and the extent of natural areas (3), with an increasing…
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June 10, 2020