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Cosmic Curiosities

“Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”
~ Sir Isaac Newton 1642-1727

Time Travel

Cosmic Curiosities

“The light from a galaxy a billion light-years away, for instance, will take a billion years to reach us. It’s an amazing thing. The history is there for us to see. It’s not mushed up like the geologic record of Earth.”
- Margaret Geller, American Astrophysicist

Cosmic Curiosities

“I accept the universe.”
- Margaret Fuller, 19th-century USA Journalist

Subtle & Spectacular: A Total Lunar Eclipse

All eclipses are spectacular, but the total-lunar variety is slowly mesmerizing and subtle.

For Native people in the Great Lakes area, finding sufficient food was sometimes a challenge.

They structured their seasonal round of movements and forays to different areas to take advantage of rice, nuts, berries and other foods which were plentiful as well as travelling to good fishing spots and areas where game was plentiful.

Cosmic Curiosities

“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”
- Maya Angelou, American Author & Poet

Diving Into Deep Space

With the exception of dogs, Native people in the Great Lakes region had no domesticated animals, so they depended on their own power for transportation.

Walking was the most common way of moving, and personal possessions were limited largely to what the people could carry themselves.