About three or four times a year I stop whatever else I’m reading in my morning devotions, (usually something from Martin Luther), and take a month to read through the Book of Psalms. In my Bible it means that I need to read about three to four pages a day to get through the entire…
One of the numerous czars that our government has is the foreign aid czar. This czar presides over the money that our government gives to other countries across the globe. According to the web page foreignassistance.gov, our government is projected to spend $34 billion dollars in foreign aid next year, 2017. This money will be…
Quick, tell me what great achievements can you think of that our US government czars have accomplished? Say what? Having finished my 50-installment project on research that is going on in various universities in every state in the country I am embarking on a new project; taking a look at what kind of interesting things our…
During a recent family gathering I had the opportunity to visit with one of my older sisters. She told me a story about my father that I had never heard before. Mr. Eisman was a teacher at Hillcrest School, the boarding school we attended when my parents served as missionaries in Nigeria. He was teaching…
There is a lot being done at the University of Wyoming to encourage research but apparently not much actual research that is very newsworthy. http://www.uwyo.edu/research/ The University of Wyoming has a National Park Service research station. The goal of this station is to foster research the National Parks in the Rocky Mountain Region. It sits on…
Milwaukee’s Marquette University opened its doors on August 28, 1881. Two days later Bishop John Martin Henni, the man responsible for its founding, passed away. Marquette is a Jesuit University named after Rev. Jacques Marquette, S.J. (1637-75), a French missionary and explorer in North America. Early in 2005 my daughter met her husband-to-be at Marquette and…
Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia does not have a research department, it has a research corporation. A not-for-profit corporation chartered under the laws of the State of West Virginia, the Marshall University Research Corporation delivers professional services to members of the university research community Marshal was founded in 1837 and named after John Marshall, the fourth chief…
Here on week forty seven of this grand research project, as I’m studying the research going on at the University of Washington in Seattle, I find out about an important aspect about the research that goes on around the country. It’s called “dual use research” and here is how it is described by the US…
There are two opportunities to hear from former atheists in our area this weekend. Friday evening, musician and former atheist Chris Dreisbach will share his music and faith story at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Owatonna and the following morning, at Peace Lutheran Church in Faribault, Rev. Donavon Riley will talk about his journey from atheist…
Where do you look for inspiration? It appears that more and more scientists are looking to the wonders of nature for inspiration. A quick search online shows that centers for biologically-inspired research can be found from Georgia to California to London to the subject of this week’s research report, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,…
Mirror Neurons 