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There are plenty of rock stars out there who climb to the top of their profession by being outrageous, bombastic, colorful, and sometimes, just plain weird. Sure, there has to be enough talent on board for one to write and/or perform music, but it seems like some are trying a little too hard to […]
Listening to the opening lines of The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, it struck me that it has been fifty years since I began my semester long stint student teaching. Okay, so it was ‘fifty years ago this month’ and not ‘today’, but it still got me thinking about what I took away […]
Both Chinese and Greek philosophers are given credit for the origins of the old saying, “The wheels of justice turn slowly.” Sun Tzu’s version is often quoted (“Wheels of justice grind slow but grind fine”). Greek biographer Plutarch’s claim is based on his paraphrasing an ancient Greek proverb when he said, “Thus, I do […]
We left Part 1 of this story just as the surface rescue teams finally penetrated the lowest levels of the San Jose Mine. At this point, they had no idea if there were any survivors from the cataclysmic collapse that occurred on August 5, 2010. It was day seventeen before the drill rig labeled […]
The first time I was underground in a working mine was in the spring of 1974. Eleven of us crammed into a thirteen passenger van and left Marquette to take a geological field trip around Lake Superior. Organized by Dr. John Hughes, our first day of travel took us all the way to Sudbury, Ontario. […]
Happy New Year! Evening planetary viewing this month will be great so let’s jump right to the star of the show, Venus. Found in the SW to WSW part of the sky, Venus will be shining at a spectacular mag. -4-4, it will be hard to miss. Setting 4 hours after sunset, Venus will provide […]
As 2024 came to an end, we learned of the passing of WOAS-FM’s founder and first General Manager Thomas G. Lee (March 9, 1939 – November 26, 2024). Tom and I both began our service for the Ontonagon Area School District in the Fall of 1975 (he as the high school librarian and me […]
In the summer of 1999, author Stephen Ambrose was having dinner with his old friend George McGovern. Having been an acquaintance of the former 1972 presidential candidate, he knew of his previous service in the Army Air Force during World War II. Over dinner, McGovern mentioned he had recently sat for several interviews with […]
A while ago I dedicated this space to one of the most inspirational teachers I had back in the day, the late Don Aronson (R.I.P.). Digging back in the old memory files dusted off a lot of other memories that made me think, “Okay, what else did you pick up along the way and […]
In Part 1 of Mission Control, we introduced Christopher Columbus Kraft, the man who guided the birth of ‘Mission Control’ for the United States space program. Kraft and his group invented the position that became commonly known as ‘Flight’. This call sign has been used for the director who rules over NASA’s ground control […]