Month: March 2011
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Margin of Error
The New York Times article “Nuclear Agency Tells a Concerned Congress That U.S. Industry Remains Safe” had a curious statement from Gregory Jaczko, of the chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, in front of Congress. “U.S. nuclear facilities remain safe,†Mr. Jaczko told two House Energy and Commerce subcommittees, which had originally planned to consider his…
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The Bahá’à Fast
From Shoghi Effendi in Directives of the Guardian: The fasting period, which lasts nineteen days starting as a rule from the second of March every year and ending on the twentieth of the same month, involves complete abstention from food and drink from sunrise till sunset. It is essentially a period of meditation and prayer, of…
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Second Thoughts
Is it strange that I would prefer an article about me to feature a picture I took rather than one of my face? The article mentioned my top of my head favorite photo. (Well, one not involving people. We can keep that between us.) This photo of a possum-playing box turtle hanging out on a trail…