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In the August 2010 Vanderbilt View, Laura M. Miller profiles Bob O'Dell, a VU physics and astronomy professor who "was part of the team that conceived and designed the Hubble." The article caught my attention because it delves into how money and public policy affect science, and how "the Hubble Space Telescope fundamentally changed how astronomy is done -- not only physically, but the ideology of the research itself," including the fact that Hubble-collected data becomes public domain a year after it is obtained.

From a March 2010 NPR profile of Rabbi Harold Kushner:

In his seventh decade, Kushner wrote Overcoming Life's Disappointments. He says that when people look back on life, they realize that many things they had their hearts set on doing remain incomplete.

"Does that brand your life as a failure? Or can you find the secret ... of failing and not feeling like a failure?" Kushner says. "The difference between a person who has a happy old age and the person who has an unhappy old age is not how successful they were, but it's how much the things they failed at continue to gnaw at them. And no matter what you've achieved, if you're not able to still that little voice of disappointment, you are never going to be happy."

Still, Kushner says, his relationship with God hasn't changed as he has become older.

"My sense is God and I came to an accommodation with each other a couple of decades ago, where he's gotten used to the things that I'm not capable of and I've come to terms with things he's not capable of," Kushner says. "And we care very much about each other."

My friend Lora is on a brilliant tear at her blog. Catch the sparks:

B: Ball and Bombeck

B: Brahms

A: Amor --> "I adore red, but matching red is tough. Perhaps impossible. Are we older when we no longer see just the Crayola box version? When we know the range of possibility and of limitation?"

Tesoro - a quote from Eduardo Galeano's Book of Embraces

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2010-09-19 12:53 PM clippings: how it is going to turn out Previous Entry :: Next Entry Read/Post Comments (0) Share on Facebook	About to plunge into a full day of copyediting, but first, some notes: In the August 2010 Vanderbilt View, Laura M. Miller profiles Bob O'Dell, a VU physics and astronomy professor who "was part of the team that conceived and designed the Hubble." The article caught my attention because it delves into how money and public policy affect science, and how "the Hubble Space Telescope fundamentally changed how astronomy is done -- not only physically, but the ideology of the research itself," including the fact that Hubble-collected data becomes public domain a year after it is obtained. From a March 2010 NPR profile of Rabbi Harold Kushner: In his seventh decade, Kushner wrote Overcoming Life's Disappointments. He says that when people look back on life, they realize that many things they had their hearts set on doing remain incomplete. "Does that brand your life as a failure? Or can you find the secret ... of failing and not feeling like a failure?" Kushner says. "The difference between a person who has a happy old age and the person who has an unhappy old age is not how successful they were, but it's how much the things they failed at continue to gnaw at them. And no matter what you've achieved, if you're not able to still that little voice of disappointment, you are never going to be happy." Still, Kushner says, his relationship with God hasn't changed as he has become older. "My sense is God and I came to an accommodation with each other a couple of decades ago, where he's gotten used to the things that I'm not capable of and I've come to terms with things he's not capable of," Kushner says. "And we care very much about each other." My friend Lora is on a brilliant tear at her blog. Catch the sparks: B: Ball and Bombeck B: Brahms A: Amor --> "I adore red, but matching red is tough. Perhaps impossible. Are we older when we no longer see just the Crayola box version? When we know the range of possibility and of limitation?" Tesoro - a quote from Eduardo Galeano's Book of Embraces Read/Post Comments (0) Previous Entry :: Next Entry Back to Top
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