Monthly Archives: October 2012

Why Are We Here?

     If you were thinking, “Huh?  Isn’t Tim supposed to be writing about science?” when you read the title of this blog post, you’d be right.  I do write about science.  This week’s blog is going to be a bit … Continue reading

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WIP- Paradigm Shift

Ever since the Industrial Revolution started in the late 1700s (Jonsson) a social movement has been brewing.   People have seen their land and water pillaged and polluted by others ever since chemicals and pollutants have been around.  In the late … Continue reading

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The Moon

This weeks astronomy picture is of the south pole of the moon.  The Moon was formed several billion years ago when a smaller planet sharing the same orbit as Earth smacked into us at a relatively slow speed and low angle.  Our … Continue reading

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WIP Week 6

The first resource that I’ve found for my Paradigm Shift research paper is an ebook, People’s History of Environmentalism in the United States by Chad Motrie.  It’s basically a history back to the beginning of the United States (and before) … Continue reading

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Rush Limbaugh’s Kairos

January 8, 2011.  One beautiful Saturnday morning outside a convenience store in Arizona, US Representative Gabrielle Giffords was meeting with citizens from her district.  Several minutes later, 20 people were injured.  Six were dead.  The representative herself had a bullet … Continue reading

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Saturn

This week’s passion blog will be about the most photogenic planet, Saturn.  Saturn is very similar to Jupiter in a lot of respects.  Basically, Saturn is just a big ball of mostly hydrogen and helium.  It’s a different color than … Continue reading

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WIP Week 5

     For my paradigm shift report, I plan on researching how green technologies and products have gone mainstream.  While this sounds like a good thing (after all, we all love our planet very much and would have a really sucky life … Continue reading

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Planet Time

Here’s a questions for you: what’s orange, white, and the fourth brightest object in the sky?  Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system, with a mass over 300 times that of Earth, 2.5 times the mass of the … Continue reading

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Debate Analysis Part II- Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium

Last night my roommate and I wasted an hour and a half watching the greatest video that has ever been created.  It was the most anticipated event in human history, the meeting of a force of true evil and a … Continue reading

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Debate Analysis

After watching last night’s presidential debate, I’m a little bit worried about our next four years.  I know that the world isn’t about to implode if either Obama or Romney are elected president.  However, neither of them put on a … Continue reading

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