Julia R Migliore
We live in an amazing world! When we dig into the details of nature, we find things that surprise us, make us curious, and often leave us bewildered. Even our best scientists only understand small pieces of the complexity of the world. I believe that there is a God who not only understands it all, …
We live in an amazing world! When we dig into the details of nature, we find things that surprise us, make us curious, and often leave us bewildered. Even our best scientists only understand small pieces of the complexity of the world. I believe that there is a God who not only understands it all, …
We live in an amazing world! When we dig into the details of nature, we find things that surprise us, make us curious, and often leave us bewildered. Even our best scientists only understand small pieces of the complexity of the world. I believe that there is a God who not only understands it all, …
Obviously, all Christians (and non-Christians) have a brain, but some like to challenge it more than others. I enjoy reading books that make me think, especially about how faith in Jesus impacts our thinking. If you also love Jesus and thinking about thinking, here are five books I recommend: 1. I Don't Have Enough Faith …
Fluorescence is a phenomenon in which a molecule emits light of a specific wavelength when it is activated by light of another specific wavelength. We call these the emission and excitation wavelengths, respectively. For example, GFP (which you can read about here) emits green light when it is activated by blue or UV light. Sometimes …
My throat is itchy, my nose is clogged, and my body is achey. Schedules were changed, work was missed, chores were left undone. Most likely, my family can blame a virus for our less-than-stellar week. We all know viruses, but our shared knowledge comes with a largely negative attitude. From little colds like mine to …
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I spent three years of my life starting every research presentation with this fact: science has limits. More specifically, what we can see under a microscope has limits. Magnification might overcome the limits of our bare eyes, but even with the best microscope that could ever be conceived, we will hit a limit to what …
Thoughts from Eugenia Cheng's Beyond Infinity Historical Christianity holds that God is infinite in all ways. God is infinitely powerful, infinitely loving, and infinitely good. God has infinite knowledge, infinite wisdom, and infinite patience. God demonstrates infinite wrath against the sin that has marred his creation, and infinite grace towards those who put their faith …
Continue reading "What Math Can Tell Us about God’s Infinitude"
In the United States, master's and doctoral programs have a lot of overlapping requirements. Whether they showed up with a master's already or not, a Ph.D. student will typically complete all of the master's degree requirements in the beginning stages of their own degree. This ensures the student possesses the relevant knowledge when they reach …
Continue reading "What It Means to “Master Out” (and Why I Did)"
Words can take on different connotations and even meanings in different spaces. Right now, you and I have the ability to communicate with each other because we have agreed that certain words have certain meanings. When I say, "cloud," you know that I am talking about a white or grey, fluffy-looking mass of water vapor …
Science Magnifies 