Voyager falls off the edge of the solar system!The first man-made object to enter the boundary between the solar system and interstellar space appears to have reached a turbulent zone. NASA’s Voyager 1 has hit a spot where the solar wind begins to give way to interstellar space, and “termination shock.”I, Voyager.UPDATE 5/27: The [...]
The award for the #1 human rights violator of the year goes to …In its annual report Wednesday, Amnesty International “said the US administration’s attempt to ‘weaken the absolute ban on torture’ was the most damaging assault on fundamental human values over the past year and other countries had taken their cue from the US-led [...]
Which is it? “work less, work all” or “work more, if you are to work at all”
According to the Luxembourg Income Study, the typical American worker puts in 1,820 hours over the course of a year. Meanwhile, according to the OECD, his German and French counterparts clock up a mere 1,480 and 1,467 hours [...]
Chelsea Flower Show 2005 — Britain’s greatest gardening show. The BBC has full coverage throughout this week.
On Being Asked, Whence is the Flower?In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes,I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods,Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook,To please the desert and the sluggish brook.The purple petals, fallen [...]
Brilliant splashes of color lit up the night skies across North America on May 14-15th during an intense geomagnetic storm, as seen in these photos taken by Mark Urwiller outside Kearney, Nebraska and by Jesús Orjeda in St. Francis, Wisconsin. The display was triggered by a solar coronal mass ejection (CME) hitting Earth’s magnetic [...]
According to the BBC, two out of every 100 people suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder. Go ahead and take the the Florida Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory OCD Screening Test if you’re a little worried about that habit of counting to 50 before stepping up onto the Franklin train to Back Bay or checking the latch on [...]
From Lisa Rein: Jon Stewart on The Daily Show covers CNN covering the news by reading aloud blogs on air: “…the kind of frank, uncensored discussion and tenacious fact checking sorely lacking on cable news channels.” The Daily Show on BloggingAs for mainstream TV news blogs?
“… giving voice to the already voiced.”
Joel Jones and Pam Rogers cuddle post show on the back porch at joey’s [186 Avenue B, New York] while celebrating the latest smash run of fast-paced Barhoppers plays performed in bleeding edge bars in Brooklyn, some so hip you probably haven’t heard of them.Masterfully directed without artifice by accountant/auditer cum auteur/actor John [...]
You were always on my mind.
Monthly Archives: May 2005