Impossible Kisses

There is an influential opinion that the terms like ‘myth’, ‘mythological’ etc imply a negative connotation in the sense of something ‘un...

I’ve wanted to do this post for a while, but I’ve been trying to think of some good way to link together the two parts of the post. I haven...

“This telescope does help us see.” Dinosaur By Moonlight: A Puppet Show Even a small telescope separates Albireo into its com...

Today I don’t have much, but it’s something I’ve wanted to post for a long time. I’ve never been able to think of a larger context for thi...

At Wolfram|Alpha, if you ask “distance from Paris to Berlin” it tells you the two cities are 546 miles apart. It even draws you a map. ...

Lake trout are native and widespread throughout North America. Lake trout were originally found in lakes in Alaska, Canada, and the north...

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The ERTS camp had been designed under contract by a NASA team in 1977, based on the recognition that wilderness expedition equipment was ...

“ Hi! I’m Alison. I do rebellious magazine collages. They’re rebellious because when I cut up a magazine I’m not only cutting up po...

Redmond resident and Borders regular Jon Brown said all these factors — the rise of eReaders and fall of the economy — seemed to have hap...

So I’m sitting at a table in a famous LA restaurant jammed with a lunchtime crowd of famous LA people. Everyone at my table for some reas...

What I thought was most interesting, however, about the great debate a hundred years ago is that Percival Lowell often photographed Mars ...

Singer Amy Winehouse, who achieved worldwide fame with her album Back to Black, has been found dead at her flat in north London. The bo...

When the Sun sets below the horizon, big clouds and high clouds can sometimes remain in direct light for quite a while after the ground-le...

There are twenty-four different pencil colors in the Derwent line of pencils called Graphitint. Twelve come in the small tin. To acquir...