In the coming weeks we will be hearing a lot about the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The storm was a Category 3 hurricane when it came ashore at New Orleans on August 29, 2005, causing the levees that were supposed to protect the city to fail catastrophically. Much has been made of the government’s response –…
The Research Project entries for the states of California and Georgia both dealt with climate change. This week we add a third state to that list. Kelly Spratte-Lennington, a researcher at Transylvania University in Lexington Kentucky, is studying migration patterns of plants and animals caused by warming of the earth’s atmosphere. Her paper explaining the research is…
Higher Things Conference: What does this mean?.
When I visit people who are hospitalized I usually ask them how they’ve been sleeping. I point out that, even with the best medical care, if they don’t sleep well they simply won’t get better. Sarah Hayden, a student at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas would probably agree. She has been doing research on sleep…
I searched all the universities of Iowa and could not find a single bit of research being done in Iowa that was worthy of this blog series. If you are from Minnesota you understand. Minnesotans are always making fun of Iowans and vise versa! Continuing my focus on private universities this week I headed to…
I call them Google Maps on steroids and Greencastle, Indiana’s DePauw University is leading the way in incorporating them into their curriculum. What I’m talking about are Geographic Information Systems (GIS). By definition GIS is a computer system for capturing, storing, checking and displaying data related to positions on Earth’s surface. The system can then show…
What were the factors involved in your decision to read this blog post? Was is because you have read my blogs before and liked them? Was it because you are in a class and are required to read so many blogs a day? Was it because you are from Illinois? Was it because of the…
This past week was the district convention of the Minnesota South District of the church body to which I belong. Compared to the rest of the country, Minnesota is not thought of as a very diverse place but over the course of 24 hours at the convention I experienced a pretty impressive range of diversity.…
Continuing with our emphasis on research being done by private colleges and universities, this week’s installment of The Research Project focuses on research being done at the College of Idaho. I’ve never heard of this school before but it has been in existence since 1891 and boasts some pretty amazing statistics. What caught my eye…
About two years ago I started a journal, entitled “The Journal of Daily Unusual Events”, since I maintain that just about every day something unusual happens. This past week I’ve taken time to go through my journal and pick out the top ten most unusual events from the journal. Here they are in no particular…
Mirror Neurons 