Is limitless clean energy finally approaching?
Source: Can Nuclear Fusion Put the Brakes on Climate Change?
This New Yorker piece makes me sad, not because of the hope of fusion, but that we’re still so far away from it. How incredible could that be?
Watching season one of Ted Lasso and looked up soccer relegation. Basically the worst team is demoted down to the next lower playing level, e.g. a MLB team would be relegated to AAA minors.
That could make baseball a lot more interesting. “My team won’t win the pennant, but they’re playing for survival!”
THE FIRST DEGREE of humility is obedience without delay
Chapter 7, Rule of St. Benedict
A note that I want to expand on this for Oblates, that is people in the world who strive to live by the Rule.
While this is mentioned in the context of living under an abbot at a monastery, we can apply this to married life.
If my wife and I are fulfilling our role as the leaders of our domestic church, then our individual primary goal is to return to God with our spouses. With that in mind, my wife represents an abbess to me (and I an abbot to her) and so I should obey her without delay.
obedientia sine mora
Dad died 24 years ago today. Dads aren’t perfect—mine wasn’t and I’m not. If your dad is still living and able to contact him, just give him a quick call or text to say hi on behalf of those of us who can’t.
R doesn’t like to be called “precious” because she’s not the One Ring.
I guess she paid attention while we read Lord of the Rings to the girls…
My brother-in-law passed away due to cancer on September 1st and was remembered by friends and family on September 6th.
He’ll be interred at Ft. Sill National Cemetery on a date in the future.
It’s going to take a lot of science to show me that the unvaccinated population is not contributing in a non-proportional way to the transmission and hospitalization of COVID.
Even with breakthrough cases and viral load levels being the same initially, vaccinated people don’t carry that load as long and an early study suggests carry less contagious viral load.
Futhermore, looking at hospitalization rates, unvaccinated people, by far, are the ones ending up in the hospital and ICU beds.
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What are “things that should shock no one” for $200, LeVar?
“I told the kids to be more than what people think they are,” said Tylan Bailey, who plans to become a teacher.
This is beautiful. What a role model for pushing through.
I miss building websites. I need to carve out a bit of time to just work on that on a semi-regular basis.