IC1396

IC1396 is a star-forming region of hydrogen and dust in the constellation Cepheus – the mythological King of Aethiopia whose wife was Cassiopeia and who […]

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Tonight’s Late Post

My post today is a few minutes past Sept 20th – alas! For the past week, I have been collecting images of a star-forming region […]

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Tonight in Food Porn

I’ve been working on an imaging project to capture IC1396, a star forming region in the constellation Cepheus, for the last week. I’m taking more […]

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Ahoy Me Mateys

You likely remember from your early school studies that Queen Elizabeth I was a patron of Sir Francis Drake who commanded the Golden Hind and […]

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Communicable Diseases

Susan became the head of the Department of Communicable Diseases at the Texas Department of Health in the early 2000’s. Both of us had thought […]

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The Snake

It would be a good title for a political post – maybe something about Rudy or Gregg or Donald and his entourage. But it isn’t. […]

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Anniversaries

From the Latin annus for year and vertere meaning to turn, we commemorate important events in our lives. Some are as personal as they are […]

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This Week in Viruses

Here is Week 130 of BCM President Paul Klotman’s COVID updates. The COVID pandemic seems to have arrived at a steady state, for now; we […]

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Unseemly

In most circumstances, I would more likely say inappropriate or maybe wrong. But sometimes, unseemly is the best choice. Take, for instance, solicitations for political […]

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The Ganzfeldt

It was 1971, I think. I was working at the newly established UT School of Public Health in Houston. Mine was an IT job. And […]

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