Life as Edward Jensen

Here’s a video from the National Science Foundation and NBC Sports explaining the science behind my favorite Winter Olympics sport, curling.

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Don’t be knocking my sport!

-Edward Jensen

30 years on, that answer is still yes.

-Edward Jensen

For what it’s worth…this was on the PBS NewsHour’s 19 February 2010 broadcast.

-Edward Jensen

Last week, retired US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor stopped by KAET’s public affairs program Horizon to talk about what she’s been doing since she retired from the high court, civility in government, and her O’Connor House Project.

Justice O’Connor’s confirmation created the Horizon program back in 1981 and it’s apropos that she was the first guest in Horizon’s new set in the Cronkite School building on the ASU Downtown Phoenix campus.

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-Edward Jensen

Reporter JJ Hensley from the Arizona Republic sat down with Ted Simons on a recent edition of KAET’s Horizon to discuss what’s going on in Maricopa County.

With apologies to Stanley Kramer, it’s a mad, mad, mad, mad, county…

-Edward Jensen

Merry Christmas to all!

“For a child has been born for us, a son given to us; authority rests upon his shoulders; and he is named Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” [Isaiah 9:6 NRSV]

O come let us adore him!

Today Christ is born: Alleluia.
Today the Savior comes: Alleluia.
Today the angels sing on earth: Alleluia. Glory to God in the highest.

Merry Christmas!

-Edward Jensen

Presented without comment.

-Edward Jensen

Last week, physicists working at the CERN in Switzerland and France recorded the first collisions in the Large Hadron Collider, a 17-mile underground circle that accelerates atoms to collide in an effort to recreate the universe mere moments after the Big Bang.

And, strangely, all I can think of is the Large Hadron Rap:

-Edward Jensen

I should think that no preface is needed. Have a happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

(if you need a refresher on all the Muppets featured in the video, go here.)

-Edward Jensen

While exploring through The New York Times website recently, I came across a review of an organ concert by Cameron Carpenter, an up-and-coming American organist known for his showmanship, technique, and his arrangements for organ.

Anyway, the concert review linked to a video of him performing his orchestration of Vladimir Horowitz’s Carmen Variations. This was performed on the Marshall & Ogletree organ at Trinity Wall Street, which readers of this blog will remember was the same organ whereupon Robert Ridgell played his tribute to the King of Pop on the King of Instruments.

Enjoy!

-Edward Jensen