Dutchess Dragon Boat Race & Festival in Poughkeepsie
In Western literary tradition, dragons are scary, dangerous beasts, and awakening one is generally held to be an unwise move.
Nature
Talk on coexisting with coyotes in Woodstock
It hasn’t been all that many decades since the top of the food chain in New York State was pretty
Chances are… Of lotteries and global destruction
A caller on last week’s Vox Pop show on WAMC worried about Nibiru. That’s the planet supposedly on a collision course
Secrets of the Juno spacecraft
Last week the space headlines were all about Jupiter. A billion-dollar spacecraft named Juno successfully fired its engine and went into
Documentary of pioneering landscape designer Jens Jensen at Cary Institute
After immigrating to Chicago in 1884, Danish-born Jens Jensen was taken by the immensity of the Great Plains, calling it “America’s
Farpoint on the Fourth: Our planet at its slowest
Earth reaches its farpoint on the Fourth of July. This is aphelion, when we are 94 million miles from old Sol. This three-percent
Garden Conservancy Open Days this Saturday
The Garden Conservancy Open Days program was created in 1995 as a means of introducing the public to gardening, by
Is Earth flat?
I just got back from the Wanderlust Festival in Vermont. My company, Slooh, wants to expand our audience. They thought it would
Saturday is Hudson River Day in Kingston
Does the arrival of sultry summer weather make you dream of getaways to charming harbor towns where you can stroll
Honey Moon on the Solstice: It hasn’t happened since 1948
It’s rare, all right. A full Moon last landed smack on the Solstice in the 1940s. It’s the kind of thing that