Night Sky: Last chance to see Venus
Twilight won’t be the same without Venus hovering in the middle of it.
Lifestyle
Beyond honey: A primer on some of New York’s 400-plus bee species
Honey bees are great and all, but did you know many native bees are actually better pollinators because the co-evolved with local plants?
New web-based system augments HealthAlliance’s stroke care
Officials at HealthAlliance of Hudson Valley say that new technology will help fill gaps in critically needed specialties and save precious minutes when dealing with strokes and other neurological emergencies.
‘Unrequited’ author on writing about obsession, love and heartbreak
“Much of my work, and certainly my book, won’t really make much sense unless you’ve had some taste of obsessive love/unrequited love at some point in your life.”
First kisses and faerie romances
He wanted it to be real, Jack Warren explains, and sometimes it was
A professor wonders how new technology will change learning
Perhaps the future lies in digital narratives, like videogames. I just hope, for the sake of young lives, that they are as effective as books.
An argument for nature’s innate intelligence: the wing
Random evolution can’t explain the dragonfly’s wing. Unlike the evolution of giraffes’ necks, where any incremental increase in length would offer evolutionary advantages, a step-by-step process just wouldn’t work for a wing design. The wrong shape would be useless, and confer no advantage whatsoever.
Wellness Embodied, New Paltz psychotherapy center, celebrates first anniversary
“The heart of ‘Wellness Embodied’ is our psychotherapy practice, but I also recognize that sitting in a room with one person for an hour a week isn’t necessarily enough for a person to ‘shift’ some important things in their lives.”
Poll finds strong support for lifting Upstate ridesharing ban
A Siena Poll found 77 percent of New Yorkers support lifting a long-standing ban on ridesharing services like Uber and
Perfect temperature: This is when it matters
Two of the nation’s top climate scientists told me that our region should see its greatest anthropogenic changes during winter nights. These are statistically the year’s coldest few weeks, with a normal high around freezing and normal nightly low around 13 degrees.