Exploding universe: a nova and a supernova right now
It’s a great time to observe the sky if, like most guys, you love explosions. Last week the brightest nova
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The mix-up that made many miss the meteors
Confusion surrounded the recent meteor shower: Many TV stations said that the Perseids would peak on Monday night, August 12.
Death Café convenes in Kingston
In most settings, serious talk of one’s mortality would be a conversation-stopper: a downer, a real bummer that would cause
Hunter Lovins lectures on Gross National Happiness at Bard
Among the contemporary nations of the Earth, my hero is the little Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan. In 1972, the Bhutanese
Cosmically speaking, it’ll do no harm if you sleep in tomorrow
Between global warming and fracking, we often hear the word energy. In Woodstock many believe that “Everything is energy.” Of
Between the Tides Festival in Saugerties
Enjoy an afternoon of live music at the Between the Tides Festival at the Saugerties Lighthouse on Sunday, August 18
Here come the meteors!
Here they come! Already the post-midnight sky is ablaze with three or four times more shooting stars than normal. Each
West Hurley Burly Mountain Bike Race opens a new trail
Jeremy Swift learned to ride and race mountain bikes on local trails and decided it would be great to have
Simple Science Can be Fascinating
You hear or read something and go, “Wow, that’s cool, I never knew that.” When the “new” fact is something
Is gravity weirder than we think?
We’ve long known that our Milky Way galaxy will collide with its neighbor Andromeda in about four billion years. But