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…
Jesus Uses an Ass for His Work: Oh What Comfort This Sweet Sentence Gives.
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:…
Here is my response to the prompt: Beach, mountain, forest, or somewhere else entirely? (https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/places/) They say there are only three rules in the real estate business: location, location, location, which basically means that the value of a piece of property is based on its location. A run-down house in a good neighborhood is worth…
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…
My older brother is a product developer for a multinational food company. They send him all over the world looking for new foods and flavors. My first video upload tells about his passion for food and what he found on a recent trip to Mexico. You can see me in this video if you look real closely when…
I’m sorry to be the one to share the painful truth with my fellow bloggers but the reality is, the vast majority of what we write is going to be forgotten by the world either in our own lifetimes or shortly thereafter. Yes, I know we all think we are the exception to the rule but…
For my fourth blogging assignment we were asked to post something for our ideal reader. This helps provide focus for the things we blog. After giving it some thought I decided to post something that has been sitting in my draft folder for a while. This passage is from a book by Joseph Hallinan entitled Kidding…
