Here are pictures from our trip to the 2015 edition of Art in Bloom at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. This event features over 150 floral arrangements designed to interpret the diverse artworks in the Institute’s collection. it is by far the most popular event that is held at the museum each year. Best of…
Does anyone really know what time it is? Researchers at the University of Colorado – Boulder, in cooperation with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, have developed a clock that keeps setting records for accuracy. The latest upgrade to the strontium atomic clock developed by JILA means that now the clock will neither gain…
Someone once made the comment that “all theology is biography.” A person or theologian goes through an existential crisis and pursues answers and ends up establishing a whole new system of theology. What I’m finding out with The Research Project is that research is also often biography. A researcher or other random person is confronted with a…
This week’s edition of The Research Project is the first one where I actually contacted one of the researchers involved for input. In this case Professor Alan Mantooth of the University of Arkansas was kind enough to give me feedback on what appears below. I hope to continue this practice regularly. Disclaimer: If you already…
When was the last time you heard about a hurricane hitting the state of Arizona? Can’t remember? Neither can I. But yet the best new research on predicting the frequency of hurricanes appears to come from a graduate student and his professor at the University of Arizona (UA). The student, Kyle Davis, and his professor,…
What can I say about Alaska? Many people are attracted to it’s unpolluted wilderness areas, abundant wildlife and natural beauty. Me? If I ever get the chance to go to Alaska I would go but it isn’t very high on my bucket list. Here’s what caught my attention in research in from the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA): Ryan…
Welcome to a 50-week adventure in research blogging. My grand plan is to explore the research that is being done at the major universities in each of the 50 states in our country and then blog about it once a week. Some of the criteria I will follow in selecting research to blog about are:…
Every March 14 (3.14) is Pi Day. Pi is the ratio between a circle’s circumference and its diameter. Since this ratio is approximately 3.14 for a circle of virtually any size, pi is known as a mathematical constant. Pi is also a fascinating number because its decimal representation never ends and never settles into a permanent repeating…
In my roaming through the blog-o-sphere I came upon a post entitled “When a Birth Goes Wrong” written by Juli Townsend. Juli is a midwife from Australia who is sharing about her experiences through her blog. The post appealed to me, not because I have dreams of someday getting a job in the medical field, but…
Martyrs are Christians who choose to die rather than deny their faith. They give the ultimate witness to the belief that we need not fear death because for our salvation Jesus died on the cross and rose from the dead.
Mirror Neurons 