Slippery Ice Of Climate Science

November 20, 2019

When the streets are icy, don't slip and fall on the evidence of climate change.  It's underfoot all around you. 

An amazing NOAA video shows how CO2 levels have changed up and down over the past 800,000 years, with a significant spike recorded since the Industrial...

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Moon Landing at 50

July 7, 2019

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 in Michiana, including at Notre Dame, at Penn Harris Madison Digital Video Theater & Planetarium, and at multiple regional libraries.  Further afield, see NASA list of Apollo events.

EVENTS

July 7 , Sunday

Necks Craned 50 Years...

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Necks Craned 50 Years Later

June 6, 2019

While we commemorate the first lunar landing fifty years ago, consider the view from Earth, too.  In the United States and around the world, people were gazing skyward at the waxing crescent moon, imagining what was happening a quarter of a million miles away.  You can...

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Land on the Moon 50 Years Later

December 11, 2018

July 20, 2019, marks the 50th anniversary of astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin landing on the moon.  Celebrate the achievement with a group reenactment of Apollo 11 landing, reprinted from 2012 blog post Kids Land on the Moon:

For an activity at a fifth-grade camp, kids s...

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Illinois Bicentennial Star

December 3, 2018

As Illinois celebrates its 200th birthday, find the Illinois Bicentennial Star in the winter sky. At 200 light years away, the corner star Scheat in the Great Square of Pegasus shines prominently.  Starlight that left Scheat in 1818 when Illinois became a state, after...

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Solargraphs Capturing 2017

February 25, 2017

A new round of solargraph cans are capturing light at multiple sites, including Prairie Vista Elementary School, Rocco's Style Shop, St. Pius X Catholic Church, and Copshaholm.  Three other sites--Building 84, Four Winds Field, and St. Patrick's County Park--also launc...

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Cause To Look Up At Women's March

January 17, 2017

If you are attending any Women's March on January 21, 2017, and you have a positive attitude or a willingness to look up, then I encourage you to seek a poignant moment reminiscent of an inauguration--that is, the second Presidential Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln.  P...

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Looking Up At The Inauguration

January 6, 2017

I find value in a parallel between the Presidential Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln in 1865 and the Presidential Inauguration of Donald Trump in 2017.  Yes, there is a similarity, and it is cause to look up.

In 1865, poet Walt Whitman observed President Lincoln on the d...

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Bicentennial Star Shines On

December 28, 2016

With the conclusion of 2016 comes the end of two Indiana Bicentennial Legacy Projects that encouraged people to celebrate the state's 200th birthday by observing the sun and stars.  Thanks to all who kindly acted on Indiana Bicentennial Star and Anniversary Solargraph,...

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Snapshots of Time

December 22, 2016

The holidays came early for me, and with magnificent gifts.  This week I gathered up a dozen small aluminum containers from around the community, some of which had been in place since June of this year.  I eagerly brought the containers home, giddy with anticipation, a...

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