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…
The first ten weeks of The Research Project I reported on research happening at the “flagship” public research universities in each state. For the next ten weeks I’d like to report on research going on at the major private universities of the next ten states on the list. In week eleven we head out to…
Nestled among the rolling hills and lakes west of Faribault, Minnesota is a remarkable store featuring 5,000 guns along with all the parts and accessories that go with them. Here are some pictures of my visit to Ahlman’s with my son-in-law and grandson. The mirror at the end of this line of guns makes it…
Back in week five of The Research Project I reported on pastureland research done by Professor Whendee Silver of the University of California – Berkley. Dr. Silver’s research showed that managed pasture lands or range lands were quite good at removing or sequestering carbon from the atmosphere. And since carbon in the atmosphere is the…
It’s still one of the most amazing things that has happened in my life; the time my parents uprooted me and my five siblings from our home in Minnesota and headed off to be missionaries in Nigeria. That’s eight plane tickets, eight sets of luggage, six children ages six to fourteen and four flights to…
One thing that struck me about the Easter stories this year was that, even though the disciples had just witnessed the greatest, most miraculous event in human history, they still saw the importance of Scripture in the life of the Church. Luke’s narrative of the events that took place on Easter Day has two instances…
Just in time for the start of mosquito season, the University of Florida has released its results on a study about why mosquitoes are attracted more to some people but not others. Working with researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine the study found, for the first time, an underlying genetic component…
Mirror Neurons 