Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 813

“Kepler’s ‘Alien Megastructure’ Star Just Got Weirder”

    A genuine puzzle:   http://www.seeker.com/alien-megastruc...   Are the invaders coming to get us?   Aieeeeeeee!    

“America’s Largest Outdoor Theatre Event Features 700 Lip Syncing Mormons”

    A rather decent account — betraying only relatively slight traces of cynicism — of the Hill Cumorah Pageant (or, as the article’s subtitle puts it, of “the real Book of Mormon“):   http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/...    

“An American Muslim Fencer Lunges Into U.S. Olympic History In Rio”

    http://www.npr.org/sections/thetorch/...    

Religion News Service: “A new Mormon temple rises in Ben Franklin’s Philadelphia”

    A somewhat more in-depth (or, at least, more interesting) treatment than we often see in such stories:   A new Mormon temple rises in Ben Franklin’s Philadelphia    

Martin Luther on the home as a school

     After his own marriage Luther’s tone shifted to a stress upon the home as a school for character. It is the area where the Christian virtues find their readiest exemplification, and, whereas in Catholicism monasticism is the sphere for the cultivation of the counsels of perfection, in Protestantism the home is as it [Read More...]

“So yer goin’ huntin’ agin?”

    Utah’s deer seasons are approaching.  And so, with that in mind, I bring you this classic video.  The image quality is terrible; I wish I could find a better version but, though I’ve tried, I haven’t located one.   Still, it’s wonderful.    

On voting for Mr. Trump because of the Supreme Court

    “The Supreme Court Is Not a Sufficient Reason to Vote for Trump”   “Where Is the Evidence That Trump Would Defend the Constitution?”    

“The Soon-to-Be Biggest Thing in Football Has No Idea What He’s In For: Inside 425-Pound Motekiai Langi’s Path to BYU”

    From Sports Illustrated:   http://www.campusrush.com/motekiai-la...      

A Syrian refugee teen at the Olympics

    This is a great thing, and I wish her well:   http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/06/sport/r...    

“Astronomers list 20 planets most likely to harbor life”

    We’ve come a long way on this subject since I was young:   http://www.wired.co.uk/article/astron...   3 And God spake unto Moses, saying: Behold, I am the Lord God Almighty, and Endless is my name; for I am without beginning of days or end of years; and is not this endless? . . .    29 And he beheld many [Read More...]