I don’t usually post two days in a row, but I often post to sound off about something that’s gotten by dander up, and that’s what’s happening today. There’s a situation I just have to correct. The news reports I’ve been hearing all morning about Curiosity’s landing on Mars have all said, “The probe entered [...]
So the news media are all atwitter (BTW, you do follow me on Twitter, don’t you?) about the current rash of energy beams pouring out of the Sun. Is it solar armageddon? Does it spell the end of civilization? No. Sure, cell phone calls might get messed up a little, and your Nüvi may lose [...]
I was watching the local news the other day — OK, to be honest, I was trying to summon enough consciousness to start the coffee machine while the local news played somewhere within the truncated reach of my senses — and I heard the anchor say something about an asteroid approaching Earth and a NASA [...]
I’ve been hearing a lot of hype over the past few days about the Moon. Some of it is attention-getting, spectacular, vaguely apocalyptic, and absolutely wrong. The rest of it is attention-getting, spectacular, fact-based and scientific, and also wrong. The truth is, tonight’s full moon—the supermoon, the perigee moon—will be lovely, but not all that [...]
Today is the summer solstice (that’s today as I’m writing this, not today as I’m posting it), the first day of summer. All yesterday morning, I listened to the weatherman on our local TV station describe the beginning of summer as, “the moment the Sun passes over the equator.” Now, I know that meteorologists today [...]
