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The Messenger and the message

One of the beautiful things about summer is waking up to bird song; the trilling chorus outside my window as the rising sun paints everything rosy and gold. It’s winter now. The mornings are pretty quiet. There’s no choir of…

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The Making of ‘Light Illuminated’

Radio. Photography. Microwaves. Television. The Internet. What do these things have in common? They’re all forms of ‘light-based’ technology. Without light and its basic properties we wouldn’t have these and many other modern tools. That said, without light and…

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Saturday Morning Cartoons: Happy Halloween

With Halloween upon us, I thought that the theme of ‘fear’ would be appropriate for this week’s Saturday Morning Cartoons. I’ve got a handful of scary/creepy cartoons followed by some videos that explain what fear is, why things are creepy…