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Pictured here is my great-great-grandma Oyateotawi. Her name means “Girl of Many Peoples.” Native American genealogy is not easy to trace (they didn’t keep written records), but from what I can find, Oyateotawi is closely related to chiefs Little Crow and Big Thunder. How she ended up at the frontier fort in what is now…

The Devil is in the details? A Caravaggisti like Jusepe de Ribera might say so. So might a lot of others.

Quelle couleur est produite en mélangeant le rouge, le vert et le bleu ? Well, ça dépend. Voici la couleur sous / cachée par les autres. The photo was sent to me by my dear friend Monica Lopes this morning with a word: Gather the paints while they are available, especially Azure. The time for…

European friends often ask me to describe a typical American meal. Much to their surprise I tell them that there isn’t a typical American meal. It depends on where you live in the country. America is a country of immigrants. I was reminded of this unique aspect of my country yesterday, while in the New…

Code is poetry? DNA is code. DNA is poetry. Look at your hand, your foot, your child’s face. And tell me, “What love! What poetry!” “DNA is Code: Who Coded It?”

In 1905, Einstein published his theory of special relativity: E = mc2. Energy (E) equals mass (M) times the speed of light squared. However, Einstein was a bit troubled with his theory, as it did not allow for acceleration. He then spent the next ten years, trying to come up with a way to do…