Posted in Astronomy on Nov 18th, 2002
About this time every year, as the sun sets well before 4:30 PM (I live near Boston), I start to pine for the days to get longer again. Which is too bad, because they won’t actually get longer, as every school child knows, until after December 21st, or thereabouts. But I have an ace in [...]
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Posted in Astronomy, Space on Jul 10th, 2002
A bookstore, a weblog, a magazine, all these things take on the personality of their proprietor, and if that personality resonates sufficiently with your own, you find yourself coming back again and again, chuckling that someone should be able so consistently to amuse you, sight unseen. So it is for me, I find, with The [...]
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Posted in art, Astronomy on Nov 6th, 2000
Galileo gives posterity the finger, and other revelations from an Italian science museum.
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