Is the Singularity coming?
Stephen Hawking made headlines at the end of 2014 when, in a BBC interview, he said that we should be
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The game of life: E.O. Wilson-inspired BioBlitz in Woodstock
“There is no better high than discovery.” – E.O. Wilson Citizen science comes to Woodstock this weekend with the second
Government conspiracy…or just jet contrails?
In one of the newspapers in which Almanac Weekly appears, the same letter-writers offer repeated excursions into sinister conspiracy and
Trash Fest in Marbletown
What does it mean to be a “solid waste management activist”? Ask Margot Becker, who describes herself as a writer,
Treasure in Sherwood’s Forest
The Wallkill Valley Land Trust (WVLT) will host the sixth iteration of its annual “Houses on the Land” tour on Saturday, June
The math that destroys space and time
Professional astronomers use math routinely. Their journals brim with equations that can resemble the markings on Inca tablets. This holds
Olana marks 50th anniversary of preservation with guided landscape tours
More than five decades before Jack Williamson coined the term “terraforming” during the Golden Age of science fiction, preeminent Hudson
Trails of tears: Heart of a Lion, Native American Almanac
Remember when, a few years back, a cougar fatally struck by a car in suburban Connecticut was revealed by DNA
Help Linda Weintraub sculpt Grandmother Earth at old church in Cottekill
It’s time for people who venerate Nature to start going to CHRCH on Sundays. Beginning on May 15, the CHRCH
Monday’s transit of Mercury: The year’s biggest sky event?
If you know any backyard astronomers, you’ve heard them rant and rave about the upcoming transit of Mercury. It is