Hello, Diane,

Please contact me at glomc@dakotacom.net.  I will send a copy of the story.

I am also collecting stories from others for a short story collection to be called Children of Steel.  These are fiction stories from people who have grown up in the rust belt in steel mill towns.

Please let others know.  We ave a Children of Steel em…[Read more]

http://users.dakotacom.net/~glomc/NEH/HeavenTalkPT1.pptx

I thought some of you who have posted might like to see the power point I have been using to speak to groups about our film project. This is the older version, centered upon Galileo and Shakespeare but i think you will find it fun to view. I am thinking of adding chapter two–the plot thickens with the Shakespearean scholars vs. astronomers who…[Read more]

An April issue of New Scientist had an article on Shakespeare and his understanding of astronomy. It mentioned many of the points you make. Just an FYI.

http://www.newscientist.com/special/shakespeare

Yes, Nancy, my husband brought that article to my attention and that is the article that made me think it may be more useful to pose the issue of…[Read more]

Thanks, Lila. I will keep that in mind. I am stepping back from the F2F meeting of Galileo and Will Shakespeare to focus on why Shakespeareans get apoplexy over the attempts of astronomers who attempt to read Hamlet (Peter Usher), for example as containing clues to Shakespeare’s knowledge of “the new philosophy” of Copernicus’ heliocentric solar…[Read more]

Hi, Lisa,

We chose the two contemporaries because of new information we had from Ewen Whitaker, a British astronomer who has made a working Digges Perspective Glass. After researching that Will and his men stayed at the Digges family home in Stratford, where he almost certainly saw the copy of astronomer Tycho Brahe’s Epistolae (with the name…[Read more]

Hello, Alan,

You wrote this below. Are you in Latin America? Yes, very helpful. You know how long lit. reviews can take. You have done important work on the topic. I will stay in touch with you, Hania,and other on the Hybrid Research–I think it is the name–list. THANKS!

Glo

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“I, myself, wrote an article and am working…[Read more]

Thanks, Hania. I
It may be something that journalism people have more experience with…?

Once again, your reply was most helpful.
Stay in touch here, please.

Gloria

“At Portland State University,…”

OMG,  Grace Dillon, one of the essayists in our collection Orbiting Ray Bradbury’s Mars, teaches at your school.

You get old enough (let’s just say a couple years beyond 60) and you start to *know everybody*!  Tell Grace I said “Hi” and “Milli gwetch”–that “thanks” in Anishinaabe. -Glo

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HOW TO JUSTIFY SF AS SCIENTIFIC  AND WORTH INCLUDING IN CLASS: Tips from a veteran of the struggle

I work with the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory education outreach committee.  That may not sound like fun automatically, but we are planning a workshop around hard science SF, which is less written today than it was in A…[Read more]

Anna,

One way to explain the genre of SF is to use some of the grea writers’ words. Although Ray Bradbury only was a part-time SF writer, he made a case for the opening of minds and the stimulating of creativity that going beyond the mundane here and now can achieve.

This one-hour video from Point Loma Nazarene University is excellent and I use…[Read more]