February 2009
44 posts
7 tags
5 tags
January 2009
17 posts
Scientists Discover Mars' Ancient Oceans Sucked Up...
Sorry, I couldn’t resist writing the headline above that seems more appropriate for the The Onion. Actually it is an amazing image of Saturn’s moon, Hyperion photographed from the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn.
12 tags
3 tags
Two More Seasons For Mad Men →
This is good news – very good news. And if you can’t get your fill of advertising industry drama through the nostalgic Mad Men series, you can always fast-forward about fifty years to Trust Me.
3 tags
12 tags
1 tag
WatchHow I’m feelin’ about the upcoming Africa trip – AntsInMyPants! Shake it Gavin and Dalton.
4 tags
9 tags
8 tags
9 tags
Full Wolf Moon Tonight
Due to the moon’s elliptical orbit, tonight’s Full Wolf Moon will be the biggest full moon of 2009. According to this Space.com article, it will be “14 percent bigger in our sky and 30 percent brighter than some other full moons during 2009.”
Space.com also recently listed (see below) the names, dates and times of the full moons for 2009. I’ve edited the times for...
4 tags
“Garrett Moon Berkey
Born seven pounds, five ounces
On one-six-oh-nine”
– gl
8 tags
New Cause of Glacial Lake Agassiz?
As many people in this area know, the reason the fertile farmland of the Red River Valley is billiard-table flat is that for several thousand years this was not a valley at all, but rather part of the silted bottom under Glacial Lake Agassiz’s surface.
Lake Agassiz formed about 13,000 years ago. At its largest extent, it covered an area bigger than all five of the present-day Great Lakes...
