If you were in Madison, Wisconsin, on Saturday, you could have stopped by the UW-Madison Geology Museum to see the oldest known piece of Earth—a zircon crystal estimated to be 4.4 billion (!) years old. Check out the Rock Concert web site for more info. The crystal is heading back to Australia, where it was …
The weather has been beautiful this weekend again, with temperatures in the 70s and 80s. I spent most of the weekend outside working in the yard. Fun activities like cleaning the fence, seeding bare spots in the lawn, and filling in some holes and depressions with topsoil. Oh, the joys of owning a home…. On …
In a March 30 Op-Ed piece in the New York Times (also in St. Louis Post-Dispatch), John Danforth (Episcopal minister, former US ambassador to the United Nations, and a former Republican senator from Missouri), voices his concerns about the Republican Party and its transformation into, as he writes, “the political arm of conservative Christians.” Danforth …
Hats off to Illinois Governor Ron Blagojevich! According to an AP story at CNN.com, Blagojevich approved an emergency rule that requires pharmacists to fill birth control prescriptions. If the pharmacist has a moral objection to filling the prescription, there must be another pharmacist available who will fill the prescription. “Our regulation says that if a …