The Roman Sacristan

Aw geeze! I just saw the trailer for "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown. I'm honestly astonished that it appears to be even mo...

The Periodic Videos guys have an interesting Halloween video on candles which is actually very informative ... at least from a Sacristy geek...

Wow, maybe the LHC is a time machine. Because the experiment is moving further and further into the future. The warm-up period and ensuing ...

Well, bad news on the science side of things. The LHC has had some mechanical failures and will be out of commission for at least two month...

The US Bishops have an excellent article addressing the issue of abortion and the political sphere in responding to Senator Biden's rece...

I've been waiting for something like this. Evolution has been such a hot topic with the extremes of pure scientism (those who think sci...

Well, the proton beams are apparently working at the LHC. Large Hadron Collider: subatomic particles complete first circuit I had forgotten ...

I was bumping around teh internets, and got a bit of a status update of the LHC. They've been in a cooling down process, and have gotten...

Just happened to stumble upon this little thing looking at time travel, which has been one of the best explainations I've seen of the sc...

As I mentioned Monday, I did some nuclear physics research. I started as a physics major, but at the end of my junion year decided to switc...

So, I was talking with The Engineer and his wife yesterday about chemistry and physics, specifically my experience with some nuclear researc...

Got a letter from my friend, the brewmeister, about a recent Johns Hopkins study on a chemical in incense. "...the report was saying th...

"Avid reader" Ronny sent me some grizzly news, well, not grizzly as in gruesome, but grizzly as in my mascot ... perfect for some ...

Just found out that Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope is now live. Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope Imagine something like GoogleEarth ...

"What's really going to bake your noodle later on is would you still have broken it if I hadn't said anything?" A BBC ...

I really enjoy nuclear physics and at one time wanted to get into particle physics. In fact, before I became a theology major, I was on the...

So, have you ever wondered what is the largest island ... or what is the largest lake ... or what is the largest island in a lake ... or wha...

In one sense the title of this project doesn't really work, since Rome is the "Eternal City." However, SemperFiCatholic , poin...

It's an airplane extravaganza! I've already shown some safety testing from Boeing at this post: Is it the plane or the pilot? I foun...

Living in the information age is very intimidating. Have you thought about how much you have to know just to function in modern society? You...