Stories written on snow
A cottontail rabbit crossed the trail here, passing from open woods to a brushy thicket at the edge of a
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An unknowable universe?
For several years, increasing data are pointing to the universe being infinite in size and inventory: space that never ends,
Kids Almanac: Black Creek’s child-scale treat in Esopus
Harry Potter has Platform 9 ¾; Legos have couch cushions; my kids and I disappear to Scenic Hudson’s Black Creek
Schadenfreude
There are feelings and experiences that sometimes English just doesn’t have a word for, and another language does; so we
Clothes make the man
Without the murmur of a topic to write about, I went snooping around the Occupy New Paltz site last Wednesday
Gazillions of planets are no surprise, but an infinite universe is
Last week, two celestial revelations made headlines. One was popular with the public, the other astonished astronomers. The popular announcement,
Do it for Eleanor: Val-Kill issues call for volunteer gardeners
With the US economy still in the doldrums and many taxpayers in an ugly mood when it comes to any
Below the belt with Orion
With a period of dark moonless skies coming up, and (so far) an unusually snowless winter, let’s do some old-fashioned
Sibling rivalry redux
I was talking on the phone to my brother the other day, and, as often happens these days, our conversation
“Fermi Bubbles” have astrophysicists scratching their heads
About a year ago, astronomers using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope announced an astonishing discovery. I regard it as the