H. Bruce Rinker, Ph.D.
H. Bruce Rinker III, Ph.D. : In Memoriam
Bruce Rinker III, Ph.D., scientist, veteran science educator, conservationist, and explorer, passed to the Beyond on Sunday, January 7, 2024, at King’s Daughters Health and Rehabilitation Center in Staunton,...
H. BRUCE RINKER: Words That I’ve Lived By
During one of my morning meditation practices this week, I reflected on some of the...
H. BRUCE RINKER,P.h.D.: During These High Holy Days
This time of the year is filled annually with noisy festivals and twinkling lights, and...
H. Bruce Rinker: Oneing with the Lotus
As a scientist, I am intrigued by seemingly archaic words that regain a contemporary relevance...
H. BRUCE RINKER: Trump’s New Clothes
“The Emperor Has No Clothes” was a folktale published in 1837 by Hans Christian Anderson,...
Smart from the Start
During the last week of May, I attended the Mexican International Renewable Energy Congress in México City. With thousands of delegates from Latin America,...
Hidden Risks: A Surreptitious Calamity Afoot in the Northeast
The lakes of Massabesic, Squam, Umbagog, Winnipesaukee: their Abenaki names conjure up romantic images of New England waterways from ages long past.
Yet each has...
“There Are No Black Holes” – The Hazards of Selective Seeing and Doing
Did your parents ever scold you when you were a child for “hearing only what you want to hear?” Did they reprimand you over...
The Primacy of Elder Trees
In late January, Bart Bouricius, a long-time friend and colleague in Costa Rica called me to report two exciting news items. He had just...
A Certainty About Things Absent
Years ago, while studying philosophy and theology in an Order of Franciscan Friars, I came across a striking reference to Hugh of Saint Victor...
The Soft Earth’s Alchemist – H. Bruce Rinker, Ph.D.
Over this past Labor Day Weekend while visiting with friends in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, I met an alchemist: Joan Lederman.
Like an affable conjurer, Joan...