It has been a week and a half since the total lunar eclipse, but the beauty of it is still on my mind.
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Of the poet, scientists, and blackbirds
Eight black crows arrayed in the sparse limbs of a leafless elm, set against a gray winter sky. Their iridescent feathers burned like eight black candles — spooky, mournful, Bergmanesque.
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The next hot toy: Biochemistry sets
July 3, 2015. Hasbro-Mattel, the toy division of Microsoft Universal, today announced a product that will likely be found under many a Christmas tree later this year: The Little Creator Bioconstruction Set.
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Logic circles a strange phenomenon
My sister gave me a crop circle calendar for Christmas. That’s right, the Llewellyn’s 2000 Crop Circle Calendar, most of the contents of which are drawn from the bucolic countryside of southern England, the Holy Land of the crop circle phenomenon.
The fireball of the world's first nuclear test • US Department of Defense (Public Domain)
Understanding billion-year-old light in a century
What was the most important science story of the century?
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Do you see what I see?
“We have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him,” the Magi tell King Herod in Matthew’s gospel.
More closely related to a chimpanzee than a shark • Photo by Jen Milius on Unsplash
Trip to the genome zoo
Come with me to a zoo. Not your usual zoo of animals in cages and corrals. This zoo is displayed on a fold-out chart in the 1999 annual genome issue of the journal Science.
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Intergalactic allusions to illusions
There is a week in late November when my walk across the meadows to work in the morning takes me directly into the rising sun. Ahead of me along the double track, as if in a gun sight, the sun lifts its fiery globe above the horizon.
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The new holiday spirit: E‑commerce
“Folks, don’t get up from your chair. Don’t click that remote to change the channel. The next item we are offering on the Shop-Till-You-Drop Network will change your life.”
The Apollo 12 lunar lander over the Moon • NASA (Public Domain)
Stirring color images from black-and-white lunar landscape
Seldom has a scientific and technological story been turned into higher art than Michael Light’s Full Moon, a volume of photographs from the Apollo missions to the Moon.