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July 2019

July 27, 2019
    There is no question, it seems to me, that Earth's climate is changing....
July 27, 2019
    Are the Arabian Nights great literature?   Opinions vary sharply about this question....
July 27, 2019
    Athabasca.  Athabaskan.  For some reason, I like the sheer sound of the word....
July 26, 2019
    I've been on the road all day, so I'm a bit late in...
July 25, 2019
    The frame story of King Shahryār and Shahrazād was known in Italy in...
July 25, 2019
    Today's installment of my bi-weekly column for the Deseret News has appeared:  ...
July 24, 2019
    Some science-related links that caught my attention today:   "India’s first lunar lander...
July 24, 2019
    Just minutes ago, I received word from one of his daughters that Arnold...
July 24, 2019
    One typical feature of the Nights is the use of the “frame story...
July 24, 2019
    On the CNN website yesterday:   "The power is out -- again --...
July 24, 2019
    Films are uniquely powerful tools of communication and influence, but film-making is expensive....
July 24, 2019
    From the Church's official news site:  "New Monument Connects Past Pioneers with Today’s...
July 23, 2019
    Continued from "The shoe on the ledge":   Just as a social worker...
July 23, 2019
    The very first lines that I've written in a rough draft for a...
July 23, 2019
    Shockingly, it has been nearly a quarter of a century since we’ve visited...
July 22, 2019
    From one of my incomplete manuscripts:   One of the most famous of...
July 22, 2019
    My interest in geology is running high again.  One cannot drive through the...
July 22, 2019
    When I was fairly young, I dreamed of someday being an architect.  I...
July 22, 2019
    I saw this issue bubble up again the other day, so it seemed...
July 21, 2019
    Growing up in California and then adopting Utah as my new home state,...
July 20, 2019
    This is a potentially very important issue:   "Asma Uddin: If we deprive...
July 20, 2019
    Tonight, in the company of the two other couples who are with us...
July 19, 2019
    Last night, my wife and I went out for a light dinner with...
July 19, 2019
    The latest installation of the biweekly Deseret News column by William J. Hamblin...
July 19, 2019
    Tomorrow (Saturday, 20 July 2019) will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo...
July 19, 2019
    Jeff Lindsay has just published a new article in Interpreter: A Journal of...
July 19, 2019
    This will be my fourth blog entry about the presidential "Go back" tweet...
July 18, 2019
    A recording of the 14 July 2019 Interpreter Radio Show is now available...
July 18, 2019
    An account that I've gleaned for my notes from P.M.H. Atwater, The Big Book...
July 18, 2019
    Some good listening from Brigham Young University:   Dr. Eboo Patel, Interfaith Youth...
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