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[ Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:49 ]

Legacy Journal: Walking with Religion---Walking with Nature

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By my light’s Americans are tolerant about religion and like to get up close to the wonders of the Natural World.

There are to recent examples that illustrate the point. First is the from a study commissioned by the Pew Charitable Trust part of the $ 300 billion dollar a year American philanthropy community. Second is Rochester, NY’s Maplewood area along the lower Genessee River Trail

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* The finding the Pews Study of Religion in America includes the fact that Americans tend to be believers, and that they are tolerance of the idea of that there is more than way to practice a religious life.

A recent glorious morning among fellow bikers, hikers, stroolers, and exercisers was spent by a group of senior Oscher Life Long Learning Institute at RIT class members who were led by Hal Schuler. The area is the Center of Catholic Rochester on the bluffs above the gorge of the lower Genesee that for 10,000 years has been exposing a stratified geologic history of more than 400,000,000 years before ending it winding way to Lake Ontario.

What is striking is the juxtaposition of nature and the revolutionary power of technology to change the both the landscape and the human environment and culture.
Yankee enterprise was at work in land deals, shipping by sail, steam and modern barge, building bridges and the Erie Canal, dams, water systems, hydroelectric generating plants, and global companies like Eastman Kodak.

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[ Saturday, April 05, 2008 05:25 ]

Legacy Journal: Saturday Science Session

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Science and Technology

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“I am quite conscious that my speculations run quite beyond the bounds of true science.” - From a letter to Asa Gray, Harvard biology professor, cited in Charles Darwin and the Problem of Creation, N.C. Gillespie, p.2)

“A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections,—a mere heart of stone”

“How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children”

--------- Charles Darwin

The preserved collection of the voluminous correspondence of Charles Darwin fills volumes and is the source of much of the current spate of publications on the man, his methods and his motives. Part of that legacy can be found in the UK at the Darwin Correspondence Project.

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: Asa Gray, Born 1810 in Oneida C. NY ,Fisher Professor of natural history, and Herbarium Director, Harvard University, 1842–88. Wrote numerous botanical textbooks and works on North American flora. President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1863–73; president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1872; a regent of the Smithsonian Institution, 1874–88. Foreign member, Royal Society of London, 1873. One of his collectors was John C. Fremont.

The Herbarium is part of the Harvard Museum of Natural History which shares its site with the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnography. The botany department, museum and medical school have graduated the drug culture cult hero, Andrew Weil of Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Arizona.

Recently, part of the Gray Darwin correspondence, quote #2) has been lifted from Gillespie and used to attack the scientific (hypothesis, theory) of evolution and elevate the “theory of Creation Science”.

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[ Monday, March 03, 2008 14:19 ]

Legacy Journal: William F. Buckley

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Politics

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William F. Buckley, Jr and John F. Kennedy both visited Eugene and the University of Oregon in 1959-60. Both were impressive men to those of us who were young sophomores and unsophisticated, small town country rubes. We knew we has seen the elephant.

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We did read the newspaper and watch B&W TV so were were aware of the that writer Buckley was tilting the windmills of Godless Yale University. Kennedy was preparing his bold move from the Senate to the White House.

Both were tall, tanned, elegant, articulate, and to the manor born. The Ivy League was part of their shared pedigree.

WFB’s UofO forum was the Fishbowl in the Student Union where he spoke without notes in patrician tones about what, I do not recall. But his style was memorable. His tailored suit was without a crease, the knot of his tire was just right, his posture and diction were perfect, his message was cool, clear and logical.

JFK’s college appearance was a quick Q&A with a small campus group gathered at the cramped studio of the campus radio station.

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[ Saturday, February 16, 2008 08:23 ]

Legacy Journal:Weather Futures

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Environment

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* Apparently, there is uncertainty and market risk in the weather. Using the Chicago Exchange, snow shovel manufacturers are able to hedge their inventory by purchasing a form of insurance called a weather future. Business is reported to be brisk.

Meanwhile, snow and cold continues across the county.

* The flag at the local Mormon gathering place is still a half mast with the passing of the LDS leader.

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[ Friday, February 15, 2008 13:19 ]

Legacy Journal: Friday Fun Factory

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Commentary

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* What a world! Some say that the world is not reading. Yet, e-mails, text messengers, chat rooms, news outlets instruction manuals, PDF documents, online databases and blogs at exploding. Yes, the newsroom staff at the nytimes was reduced by 7.5%. Competition, cost pressures and technology have a way of reducing the drag effect of death weight.

* Global Warming? It the February spike in mid west tornado activity the result of surveillance and reporting , Gulf Warming, or Cooling from northern Canada weather fronts? That eminent climate and ecology authority, Senator John Kerry , seems to have it all figured out is case some of the rest of us seem conflicted, uncertain or confused.

* Meanwhile, seniors in OLLI classes at Osher RIT are taking on science topics like the Physics of Global Climate and Darwin’s five year round-the world voyage of discover aboard the converted bark, H,M.S. Beagle. at the age of 22 beginning in 1832. It took Darwin another 25 years to digest his experiences and publish his work on evolution, natural selection, and the science framework around the biologic time line and path of the human species. Intelligent Design has come under the microscope and is in the cross hairs of this serious minded group.

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: So, thanks from Rochester, NY to Rochester, Minnesota and the staff at Nevin’s shop at EEhosting.com for their recent annual site reregistration work.

:: Thanks for NOAA, the folks at the National Weather Forecasting service, and the good work of Glenn Johnson, the really fine weather reporter at ABC 13WHAM and Democrat&Chronicle Rochester, NY weather columnist.

::: Also, congrats to Jon Little for his new faculty member website at Monroe Community College where he teaches Weather and Climate, and Physical Geography. Jon is a first instructor in the Department of Chemistry and GeoScience . Jon’s site includes a PDF file or his University of Delaware Master’s Degree thesis based on field work done in Alaska’s Arctic North Slope, on site photographs, links to climate and weather resources, and information for his western upstate New York students. He interests included extreme weather, permafrost, local real time weather monitoring, regional geography, and the appropriate use of technology in education. He also teaches at SUNY Geneseo

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[ Monday, February 04, 2008 09:48 ]

Legacy Journal: Malaria, Mormons, the Beagle, and the Economy

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Almanac

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* Malaria:

The Mormon Utah tribute to Gordon Hinkley.

* A western view of the economy, energy, and the frustration around global climate change.

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: During the five years that the young gentleman amateur naturalist, Charles Darwin, was making like a modern day eco-tourist as paying passenger on the converted coastal carrier, the H.M.S. Beagle, The water and steam powered technology shift was well underway. Coal fired rail engines on land successfully competed with animal towed canal barges and carriages. Wood and canvas ailing ships would soon be replaced by Ulster steam ships with hulls of iron. Gold might enrich men, but iron would build nations. Yet, Darwin was able to fulfill his dream of visiting the tropics, collect in Patagonia and the frigid Straits of Magellan, experience an earth quake, visit active volcanos, and explore some of the Galapagos Islands.

:: One might safely assume the George Romney will pickup some delegates in the Utah Republican primary election. He is the one candidate with a clear message on energy.. He views energy sources, including fossil fuel as a clear and necessary ingredient the continuing the success of American manufacturing, agriculture, transportation, and electrical power generation.

::: Meanwhile, NOAA remains a trusted and valuable source of weather, environmental and climate information. So, the geophysical sciences continue to improve the recording and analysis of measurable changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide readings and land surface temperatures changes over the most recent 100,000 year cycle within the 500,000 million years of evolving life forms and the constantly changing environments of planet earth.

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[ Saturday, January 19, 2008 15:37 ]

Legacy Journal: Real Cold in Carolina, Coal, and ABR

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Almanac

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* Some media pundits are predicating that the weather in the northwest corner of South Carolina may effect the Huckaby turnout. They may not be aware of the North Dakota effect. A National Geographic writer made the mistake of appearing to dis the state in a recent article. The temperate response of the state’s citizenry and leadership prompted Charlie Gibson of ABC News to name the state “Person of the Week” Have a good weekend.

Scots have been using coal for a long time. Coal, iron and willing workers helped build the railroad lines that allowed the for the rapid and reliable delivery of mail, newspapers and people a throughout the British Isles. Books publishing flourished and station book sales boomed as a result.

* Meanwhile, look for a ABR movement early this year. It will have stealthy and crafty anti-Mormon tone. But, it is a dangerous and unpopular tactic. Recently, the grandson of M. Gandhi, a resident of Brighton, NY was asked to resign his position with a University of Rochester affiliated peace and non-violence foundation after he wrote a web piece offensive to local Jews with holocaust sensitivities.

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: Folks in most parts of the country are not intimidated by weather. Nor are they fearful of cyclic ice age climate change that moves at a glacial geologic creeping pace.
A recent biography of van Allen of Iowa has a picture of him and other scientists working on defense related missile and satellite research at the South Pole in 1958 where the average temperature was reported as - 58 degrees. His former grad student, James Hanson of NASA Goddard is not mentioned in the book.

:: The slums of Glasgow, Scotland were fertile recruiting grounds for early Mormons including Brigham Young. The Eccles family is one example. Mariner Eccles was in the FDR administration and was part of the first draft of the Federal Reserve System.

::: And yes, there is a small book out on the life and record of Mitt Romney. Predictably, it is modest, polite, and plain spoken.

:::: And aside. The Swedish firm, MySQL will become part of Sun Micro of Silicon Valley. To the best of our knowledge, the deal is Carbon Neutral.

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