You are what you eat
Friday, August 31st, 2007 Posted in Health, family | No Comments »Grandma & I were told "you are what you eat" by our mother's in the 30s. The origins of "you are what you eat" go back to 1863. The Scientific American magazine has devoted the Sept. 2007 issue to the global paradox of ...
Do Living People Outnumber the Dead?
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 Posted in General, family | No Comments »[Teens & over] In the Sept. 2007 Scientific American I was pleased to see 2 new books in their review section that related to my Boomer News hobby subjects. "The Endless Universe" & "The First Thought" Wow! books are coming ...
Cosmology: Correlations …
Monday, August 13th, 2007 Posted in cosmology, science | No Comments »[For the teenagers] Correlations are an essential learning source of data about the cosmos for astronomers. Dictionary definition: "a relation existing between phenomena or things or between mathematical or statistical variables which tend to vary, be associated, or occur together in ...
The Boomer News blog needs a rating system
Thursday, August 9th, 2007 Posted in family | No Comments »[ALL AGES]. I set up the blog with Dave's help as a way to communicate my several retirement subjects of interests with our 11 grandchildren. To motivate their interest in science I used the ploy that we could win the ...
There’s nothing new under the sun
Sunday, August 5th, 2007 Posted in family | 1 Comment »There is a lot of truth too that old saying. It's really really difficult to come with an idea that someone else has already thought about. Someone has calculated that there are as many people now alive as there has ...
Horizons of invisibility
Friday, August 3rd, 2007 Posted in consciosness, cosmology, family | No Comments »(For the teenagers). Cosmologist refer to our universe as "our seeable universe". When we look into our great telescopes, we are looking back in time. There is a point where we cannot see anything any more. This point of invisibility is ...