Cheryl Morris - Weblogs

This week we found that Cheney has the authority to classify documents; he did not respond to the question of whether he could declassify them. Can he? Did he? The NY Times reported on February 15th:
“There is an executive order that specifies who has classification authority and obviously focuses first and foremost on the president […]

For too many years, I avoided Valentine’s Day. There was that dreadful homeroom experience that slowly wore away as the years passed. Then, in 1985, I had a biopsy on Valentine’s Day; the result was breast cancer (early stage) and a lumpectomy and radiation followed. I would NOT celebrate Valentine’s Day for years. Until, in […]

We have a tree along the driveway that our arborist identified as Privet (Ligustrum lucidum). It has waxy leaves, white flowers, and then purplish-black berries. I’d asked whether birds liked the berries and the arboritst thought not. As I pass it daily, I’ve noted its abundant clusters of berries. Until a few days ago, these […]

What makes online learning compelling? Simulations. Yet few institutions of higher education and training programs use them regularly. According to Aldrich, the author of Learning by Doing, educators should be using some, if not all, of the four types of simulations: branching stories, interactive spreadsheets, game-based models, and virtual labs/virtual products. Yet, few do. His […]

Reading various journals, I became aware of the Pioneer anomaly: the apparent sunward acceleration of the spacecraft. On a more local level, GPS exhibits an anomaly (periodic with respect to the Master Clock) that Alex Mayer says is related to the Doppler effect from Pioneer. There is a gravitational transverse red shift (GTR). Another anomaly […]

Last Monday, after almost 10 years without a problem, the family cat, Scruffy, scratched me and the scratch led to a lymphedema incident. It was in the evening that I noticed I was cold and my left arm was itching. Upon checking, I found red striations and swelling. Damn. I knew those signs only too […]