March is Minnesota Food Share Month. That means that special activities are held to raise food and funds for food shelves around the state. Here in Owatonna there is a night of musical entertainment where the admission price is a donation to the food shelf. The local churches are encouraged to hold “pack the pew”…
Here’s a look at some of the research that is happening at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, everything from robots to chameleons to zebrafish to virtual reality. Brown is also heavily involved in research on the planet Mars since there are several articles on their research news web page about it. One of the articles…
South Dakota State University in Brookings, SD is a land-grant university that dates back to the days when South Dakota first became a state in 1889. Here are some of the highlights from their most recent Research Report. Educators from SDSU have been trying to find the best ways to educate Native American elders at…
It just amazes me that so much research goes on at the major universities in our country. Just a tiny fraction of the discoveries that are made ever make the news headlines yet every discovery contributes to our knowledge of the world God created and its inhabitants. With Benjamin Franklin as its founder and first…
This week we are re-tooling The Research Project. Instead of giving a synopsis of one research project from a university in the scheduled state, our new approach is to list several research headlines at one of the major universities of the scheduled state along with a link to more info about each project. The University…
Every year for the January 22nd anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in this country in 1973 I write a pro-life letter to the editor for our local newspaper. Some years the newspaper prints it, some years they don’t. This was a year that, for no apparent reason, they did not print…
In this week’s post we will not be reporting on any new research, only the potential for some fascinating research that may happen in the future. The University of Oklahoma recently established the Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing. The ISHF aims to study how humans develop their fullest potential as rational and moral creatures living in…
A person’s blood pressure, body temperature, pulse rate, cholesterol level and more can all be measured objectively in our bodies. But how does one measure a person’s pain level? And what if the person is a child, not an adult? Simply put, it can’t be measured objectively, but doctors and nurses do need to have a…
University of North Dakota researchers have received a major grant to help them search for treasure in western North Dakota – and it’s not oil, coal or natural gas. What they are searching for are Rare Earth Elements. Rare Earth Elements with names like Scandium metal and Terbium oxide can be worth hundreds of dollars…
We know what happened to his body; he was buried in a borrowed tomb provided by a secret admirer, Joseph of Arimathea. We know what happened to his clothes; they were divided up by the soldiers who crucified him. But what happened to the crown of thorns that was cruelly, mockingly placed on Jesus’ head?…
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