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Nature’s Mathematics
The Golden Ratio, Fibonacci, & Nature’s Spirals – 5-28-24 The real world is beautiful to our senses, mathematics is beautiful to our thinking, and each type of apprehension enhances the beauty of the other – the whole is greater than the sum of its parts....
Ursula Le Guin’s Message and a Religious Naturalist’s Response
The Sorceress poster Ursula Le Guin is one of the best known Science Fiction writers of all time. Interestingly, much of her fame is relatively recent which I take to mean that her ideas are still relevant in today’s world. There is a video on YouTube called The...
RNA Newsletter – May 2024
RNA Newsletter – April 2024
Landscape
Landscapes evolve over seasons, centuries, and eons. I live in a valley shaped by glaciers that flowed sinuously down from the peaks of the Alaska Range 200 miles north of me. We can estimate the glaciers’ thickness by the mountains on either side of the valley. ...
Log Cabin Reflections
Since 2011, Laura Emerson and her husband have lived in a wood heated, off-grid log cabin… with an outhouse, in Alaska. It is accessible only by float plane, ski plane or snowmachine (snowmobile), because there are no roads within 40 miles. The full time population of...