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1 week ago | 
fltimes.com | Cameron Miller
My 17-month-old granddaughter has a new word she likes to say. It’s kind of a game. Whisper the word for a certain violaceous combination of red and blue, and her puffy cheeks spread into a big smile as she says “purp-pol.”In the realm of so-called “high” churches, purple is worn by bishops. Historically, it was the color of royalty, and so, of course, bishops snagged it for themselves. Ironically, in those same liturgical churches, purple is the color of penitence. Enough said.
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1 week ago | 
thebraintumourcharity.org | Cameron Miller
It is hoped that £20 – £25M of the £40M, originally committed by the Government to brain cancer research in 2018, could be accessed as the Brain Tumour Consortium aims to drive a step-change in brain cancer research ensuring the most promising research opportunities are made available to adult and child patients.
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2 weeks ago | 
fltimes.com | Cameron Miller
It is Sunday night and I am in a hotel room in Indianapolis. The big news around here is flooding and tornadoes. My problem, though, is that the “Denim Spirit” deadline is tomorrow at 2 p.m., when I will be driving across a vast expanse of flat farmland heading east. People who know me personally know that I don’t have a great filter. I require a little time to unwind whatever is spooled up and find ways to let it out with acceptable language and content.
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3 weeks ago | 
fltimes.com | Cameron Miller
I have a confession to make. My dog, Rabia, and I do not always go to the lake. Granted, it is a much better start to the day when we do. However, when the temperature dives below 19, as it did so often in February, or rains for the umpteenth day in a row and we’ve had enough, then we take an alternative route. Sometimes, we head to the railroad tracks.
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4 weeks ago | 
fltimes.com | Cameron Miller
Last night we had Thanksgiving dinner with some neighbors. It was on the vernal equinox. A spring rain fell that afternoon and released the scents of the dawning season, which could be felt as much as inhaled. I realize there is a lot to unpack in that first paragraph. Thanksgiving dinner in March? The equinox? Smells of spring that can be felt? Let’s start with the equinox because that is the simplest.
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1 month ago | 
fltimes.com | Cameron Miller
Hope for the sake of hope is not hope itself. Some people hope because they cannot bear the alternative. That can end up in wishful thinking, which itself ends in resentment if the outcome isn’t what was expected. Resentment — re-feeling a thing over and over — is bad for the lining of the stomach and those who live with us.
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1 month ago | 
ceramics.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Cameron Miller |Elizabeth J. Opila
1 INTRODUCTION Silicon carbide ceramic matrix composites (SiC CMCs) are proposed to replace current generation Ni-base superalloys as hot-section components to increase aero turbine engine operating temperatures, and thereby increase engine efficiency.1-6 However, deleterious reactions occur between the CMCs and water vapor from the hot combustion environment, which prohibit broader use of CMCs in the aeronautics industry.7, 8 Environmental barrier coatings (EBCs) are required to suppress...
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1 month ago | 
politicshome.com | Matilda Martin |Anna Jewell |Cameron Miller
2 min read
The second reading of Dr Scott Arthur MP’s Rare Cancers Bill will take place in Parliament this Friday 14 March and could be a truly transformative moment in the UK’s approach to research for rare and less common cancers.
The Less Survivable Cancers Taskforce (LSCT) is supporting this Bill and its aims to incentivise research and investment into the treatment of rare cancers.
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1 month ago | 
fltimes.com | Cameron Miller
February was as it should be: fierce. March is stacking up to fit its natural profile too: fickle. When we arrived at the lake it was still dark around the edges. The lights in the theater subdued, except center stage, where the colors of the sun were thrust up on the horizon ahead of its arrival. Deep citrus orange at the hard edge of the dark blue earth washing upward into layers of honey, marigold, and apricot. All of it splashed outward on calm water.
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1 month ago | 
fltimes.com | Cameron Miller
Two weeks before I turned 10, President Kennedy was assassinated. We watched the live news coverage of it on a brand-new black-and-white television set wheeled into our classroom. When I was 14 years old, on April 4, 1968, Bobby Kennedy came to my hometown and gave a speech to a packed gym of 12,000. I volunteered on the campaign, and the atmosphere was euphoric. As he left the basketball arena, Bobby received news that Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated.
