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January 2017

January 26, 2017
      I'm deeply uncomfortable with President Trump's notion that we should have...
January 26, 2017
    The question of determining a continent's precise center is somewhat more difficult than...
January 26, 2017
    From the indispensable Jeff Lindsay:      
January 26, 2017
    The latest installment of my weekly Deseret News column is up:  
January 25, 2017
    There are worse crimes than burning books.  One of them is not reading...
January 25, 2017
    One of the places we'll visit on our Egypt tour in May --...
January 25, 2017
    A valuable meeting, it seems, on an important topic -- and one that...
January 25, 2017
    Some of you may recall the 1993 movie Rudy.  It was written by...
January 25, 2017
    A couple of days ago, I posted a link to an item by...
January 25, 2017
    Some of you might enjoy an occasional look at the website of Dr....
January 25, 2017
    “Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses...
January 24, 2017
    The wonderful keynote address at the 2016 "Second Interpreter Science & Mormonism Symposium: Body, Brain, Mind,...
January 24, 2017
    Here's an interesting article about Dr. Dirk Elzinga, an associate professor of linguistics...
January 24, 2017
    I'll be accompanying a tour to Israel from 3 May through 12 May...
January 24, 2017
    The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can...
January 23, 2017
    To say that I disagree with former Senator Harry Reid on many political...
January 23, 2017
      See also   "Disturbed Man Gets Past White House Security, Gives...
January 23, 2017
    An interesting piece by Dr. Alex Berezow:      
January 23, 2017
    In a time of terrorist violence, fear, mistrust, misunderstanding, and, all too often,...
January 23, 2017
    Controversy has swirled around this minor issue for many years.  It's nice to...
January 23, 2017
      "Be hard on yourself, easy on others." Abū ‘Abdullāh Muhammad ibn Idrīs...
January 22, 2017
    Way back in 1990 -- I never imagined myself being as old as...
January 22, 2017
    This story pleases me very, very much:     What doesn't please...
January 22, 2017
    Some of you may find this thirty-minute talk by Dr. David H. Bailey...
January 22, 2017
    A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions....
January 21, 2017
    Some will take this as an attack on science:   "Science falling victim...
January 21, 2017
    Just off the phone with a friend -- a prominent Syrian intellectual --...
January 21, 2017
    This article was, no doubt, occasioned by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's participation in...
January 21, 2017
    Returning, just now, from dropping a son off at the Salt Lake City...
January 21, 2017
    The latest iteration of the joint bi-weekly Hamblin/Peterson column in the Deseret News:...
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