Last week our part of southeastern Massachusetts was sprayed from the air with insecticide. The target: mosquitoes that carry the virus for Eastern equine encephalitis.
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The Eastern equine encephalitis virus (colored red) • Image by CDC (Public Domain)
The M33 Galaxy • Image by ESO (CC By 4.0)
Seeing what we want to see
A Newsweek magazine poll some years ago found that 87% of Americans believe in a God who answers prayers.
The Prime Meridian at Greenwich • Photo by Kris Arnold (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Walking the line
In the fall of 2003, I walked the prime meridian — the line of zero longitude — across southeastern England.
Photo by Vinicius "amnx" Amano on Unsplash
Occam’s razor
In the introduction to my book Skeptics and True Believers, I defined two frames of mind.
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Hurry, hurry, step right up…
When P. T Barnum said “There’s a sucker born every minute,” he got it wrong.
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A sense of place: a conversation
It would be hard to find two writers more different than Eudora Welty and Edward Abbey.
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O, never, never! And yet — and yet—
Childhood has two seasons: anticipation and summer.
“Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor Angelicus” by Andrea di Bonaiuto (1366)
The Angelic Doctor
A half-century ago, when I was an undergraduate at the University of Notre Dame, Thomas Aquinas ruled the roost.
Buttons recovered from the Daily homestead • Image © Stonehill College Archives and Special Collections
Buttons and bowls
Yesterday it was my pleasure (with the able assistance of local historian Ed Hands) to lead a group of fellow citizens from the Easton Historical Society deep into the woods of the Stonehill College campus, to a place where no trail goes — the late-18th-century foundation of the Daily homestead.
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That cottage of darkness
In many ways my mother’s funeral was a joyous occasion — a time to celebrate her life, to celebrate family. A time, too, to think about death.