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Jul 26, 20211 min read
Natural Artifacts Tumbling Along Beach
Emerging from Lake Michigan are natural spheres interlaced with debris. These artifacts of surf pounding a dune line are now decaying...
Dec 20, 20202 min read
Differences In Six-Month Solargraphs
Does one six-month block (December-to-June versus June-to-December) yield better solargraph results than the other? You can compare two...
Jul 10, 20202 min read
It's About Time
TIME It's about time. Arcs of light trace the diurnal path of the sun for the first six months of 2020. Each curve of the solargraph...
Jul 1, 20202 min read
What To Do With That 2020 Calendar
Paper calendars took a hit in 2020. Typically, the scribble of spontaneous social gatherings would be wedged between the surety of...
May 12, 20201 min read
One Image To Capture Six Months of 2020
In late December 2019, several people around South Bend, IN, used duct tape to secure 16-ounce aluminum cans lined with black and white...
Mar 24, 20202 min read
Astronomical Debt
The US national debt exceeds 23 trillion dollars. That's $23 with twelve zeroes after it. What would $23 trillion look like? At US Debt...
Nov 20, 20193 min read
Slippery Ice Of Climate Science
When the streets are icy, don't slip and fall on the evidence of climate change. It's underfoot all around you. An amazing NOAA video...
Nov 2, 20191 min read
High Water on Lake Michigan
High water levels continue to ravage the Lake Michigan shoreline, as October 2019 closed with a gale. Where days earlier there had been...
Jun 6, 20192 min read
Necks Craned 50 Years Later
While we commemorate the first lunar landing fifty years ago, consider the view from Earth, too. In the United States and around the...
Aug 9, 20174 min read
Night of the Solar Eclipse
Though the sun gets all the attention August 21, that's only half the story--or at least half the day. Consider the contributions of...
