{"id":1723,"date":"2006-12-03T22:01:52","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T03:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1723"},"modified":"2006-12-04T08:44:38","modified_gmt":"2006-12-04T13:44:38","slug":"cool-news-for-mcconville-tyson-and-newton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/cool-news-for-mcconville-tyson-and-newton\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool News from McConville, Tyson and Newton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David McConville is back from Sao Paolo where he attended the Planetary Collegium. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faq.art.br\/en.html\">He sends a link that describes what&#8217;s doing on at the Collegium<\/a> &#8212; it&#8217;s in Flash so I can&#8217;t link within the pages well&#8230; David and his dome will be at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agu.org\/meetings\/fm06\/\">the AGU Meetings next week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/greenespace.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/congratulations-tim.html\">Sally and a  lot of other places have noticed<\/a>, Tim Tyson was just awarded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grawemeyer.org\/religion\/index.html\">the 2007 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion<\/a> for his book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Blood-Done-Sign-My-Name\/dp\/1400083117\/\">Blood Done Sign My Name<\/a><\/em>. Speaking of names, the Grawemeyer folks manage to credit Tim &#8220;Dyson&#8221; a couple of times at their website, but the prize of $200,000 will make up for that I&#8217;m sure.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Newton was just awarded<a href=\"http:\/\/www.saltiresociety.org.uk\/research.htm\"> The NLS Saltire Research Book of the Year<\/a> for the best book covering aspects of Scottish life:  arts, education,  history, science, etc. for his <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.birlinn.co.uk\/scottishbooks\/D\/DthchasNanGidhe-1841583162.shtml\">D\u00c3\u00b9thchas Nan G\u00c3\u00a0idheal: Selected Essays of John MacInnes<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David McConville is back from Sao Paolo where he attended the Planetary Collegium. He sends a link that describes what&#8217;s doing on at the Collegium &#8212; it&#8217;s in Flash so I can&#8217;t link within the pages well&#8230; David and his dome will be at the AGU Meetings next week. As Sally and a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}