by Amanda Read Sheik | Mar 24, 2010 | Luke Historians, World Views
“How do you gain protection against the dragon? By naming the dragon.” – from The Hobbit Companion’s analysis of the dragon Smaug in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit I’m a History major, and the history of science is one of my primary...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Nov 16, 2009 | Latitude 821, Politics, World Views
How often have you looked at someone who passionately disagrees with everything you stand for and thought, “just look at the facts! You can’t argue with facts, if these people would just look at the truth they would have to change their minds!”? I’m discovering that...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Feb 23, 2008 | Fair Hills Farm, Journal, Literary Projects
Lunar Eclipse as viewed from the Southern sky on February 20, 2008. Photographed by Rachel, Abigail and me (I think Rachel took the big one and Abigail probably took the rest of the group, as I’m not certain mine made the cut for my own blog post). ...
