Pachyderms in peril: Free screening of Warlords of Ivory in Millbrook
The more scientists study endangered elephants, the more we can appreciate their intelligence, their inventiveness, their capacity for play and
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If you were born in the ’50s, you’re radioactive
One result of the many atom bomb tests of that period? If you were born in the ’50s, you have much more carbon 14 in your tooth enamel and elsewhere in your body than the rest of us. So even if you want to keep your age a secret, “they” could find out by testing you.
On the Hudson Valley cheese trail
Do you say “cheese, please”? Let’s be fromage friends. A slice on a sandwich, a cube on a toothpick, a
Finding the universe: Is your house Code Green?
I just got back from leading a tour in Chile, exploring the amazing southern skies. We annually go into the Andes
I returned to the Moon
My first look at the Moon through binoculars changed my life. I was maybe nine years old. The reality of its craters
The glory of the Seven Sisters: When have you gazed at the Pleiades?
It’s an annual autumn ritual: the reappearance of the glorious Seven Sisters. This moonless week, they rise in the east
New experiment shows space doesn’t exist
The idea of a kind of inseparability so far as space and time are concerned was dealt with by John
On the Rocks — Boulder Rock: a lot to see
Sometimes, while out hiking, we come across some wonderful geological locations. These are places where a geologist gets a real
Eerie times and a near miss by an asteroid named Spooky
Halloween will be spookier than usual this year. It’s already a dark and sort of creepy time in the heavens,
See the brightest planets in 2015’s best conjunction
Antimatter? The strange effect that observers have on their experiments? The non-reality of time? Mind-stretching topics are fun. But sometimes