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David Shane
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Christian, Physics Professor, East Lansing resident. Let honesty in all things be our first concern. Opinions are my own.
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david-shane
science
2019-03-23 20:00
A quick illustration of science-thinking, climate change, and the public discourse
What do we want "general education" students who aren't going to be scientists to come away from their college science classes able to do? Certainly some content knowledge is important, but more
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david-shane
books
2019-02-02 17:36
Quick review and snips of George Gilder's "Life after Google"
"Life after Google", by George Gilder, is one of the more interesting books I have purchased by-sight from a bookstore recently. In it, Gilder speculates about how things will change as we move
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david-shane
science
2018-10-26 19:22
Some tidbits about sound and earthquake waves
(We talked about this in class recently, thought I'd share.) The speed of sound in air is around 760 mph, or 1200 kph - that's fast, but it's not terribly fast. It's fast enough so that face-to-face human
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david-shane
photography
2018-10-14 21:49
East Grand Traverse Bay, Michigan, last night, looking north.
Polaris, friend of sailors, really does stick out in the right conditions. Was surprised how much I could see (Traverse City is a small town, but still a town). Thirty second exposure, I believe you are
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david-shane
science
2018-10-01 00:53
Quick tips I give students on interacting with public science
1. Know what peer-review is, and isn't. Peer-review is a good thing, peer-review is not a perfect thing. Most importantly, peer-review does NOT mean that someone repeated your experiment and verified
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david-shane
science
2018-09-28 20:18
Chesterton, Science, and fooling ourselves
Was reminded today of some of G.K. Chesterton's comments about science in Orthodoxy - especially the way we like to fool ourselves. I'm rephrasing a bit but - I drop a ball, it falls to the ground. I do
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david-shane
christianity
2018-09-21 00:27
J. Gresham Machen on public education
"A public-school system, in itself, is indeed of enormous benefit to the race. But it is of benefit only if it is kept healthy every moment by the absolutely free possibility of the competition of
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david-shane
christianity
2018-09-11 21:59
Chesterton on goodness and evil in the world
"... But every man feels in his heart that none of these three paper plans is like life; that none of these worlds is one in which he can live. Something tells him that the ultimate idea of the world
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david-shane
christianity
2018-09-09 17:07
G.K. Chesterton on Socrates v. Christ
"No two things could possibly be more different than the death of Socrates and the death of Christ. We are meant to feel that the death of Socrates was, from the point of view of his friends at least,
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david-shane
photography
2018-09-04 23:36
Things seen on the sidewalk in Lansing, MI
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david-shane
photography
2018-09-03 20:04
Family in town yesterday, visited Potter Park Zoo in Lansing, MI
First photo is a Guam Kingfisher, one of only about 200 left in the world, period, all of them in captivity. Second is their snow leopard, actually out and about, which I almost never see.
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