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August 2019

August 24, 2019
    There is significant and potentially history-making news out of Washington DC:   "Ruth...
August 24, 2019
    Today marks the thirteenth anniversary of the day in 2006 that the International Astronomical Union...
August 24, 2019
    "Our religion will not clash with or contradict the facts of science in...
August 23, 2019
    Today's new article in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship...
August 23, 2019
    Arabic is built almost entirely off of triconsonantal roots -- e.g., k-t-b, which...
August 22, 2019
    My bi-weekly "Defending the Faith" column appeared in the print edition of the...
August 22, 2019
    Continuing with some thoughts on the earth's atmosphere from my previous post on...
August 22, 2019
    The 11 August 2019 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show is now available...
August 21, 2019
    My wife and I are just back from seeing the film The Lion...
August 21, 2019
    For me -- and, I think, for my wife -- the big surprise...
August 21, 2019
    Are there other planets out there like Earth?   Very likely so.  Here's...
August 20, 2019
    One of the books that we read in my "Islamic Humanities" course --...
August 20, 2019
    Filming of the dramatic portions of Witnesses will begin very shortly.   We're...
August 20, 2019
    "Fools' names and fools' faces," my mother would sometimes remind me, "are often...
August 20, 2019
    Last night, my wife and I enjoyed dinner with friends and then went...
August 20, 2019
    Bill Hamblin and I published the following column in the Deseret News on...
August 19, 2019
    In my immediately previous post on Hamlet, I began to discuss the late...
August 18, 2019
    One amusing thing about the character of Hamlet is that, before the story...
August 18, 2019
    Many have already said so but, for me and my wife, the high...
August 18, 2019
    A quite unfriendly correpondent has challenged me.  Why, he -- I presume it's...
August 18, 2019
    So-called "dark matter," already quite mysterious, may have become a bit more so:...
August 18, 2019
    On Saturday morning, sitting with my wife and one of her friends in...
August 18, 2019
    Inquiring minds want to know!   If I'm not misinformed, a two-part documentary...
August 17, 2019
    Our English word science derives, ultimately, from the Latin verb scire, which meant...
August 16, 2019
    "The New Colossus," by Emma Lazarus Not like the brazen giant of Greek...
August 16, 2019
    It's Friday, so another article has been published (today) in Interpreter: A Journal of...
August 16, 2019
    Thanks to the generous efforts of Tom Pittman and Russ Richins, the postprandial...
August 15, 2019
    "And We have sent the Book down to you in truth, confirming what you...
August 15, 2019
    Sam LeFevre, who sometimes looks in on this unworthy blog, has kindly called...
August 14, 2019
    It's a balmy and very still evening here in St. George.  As I...
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