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Month: September 2016

Astronomical Calendar 2017, dose 2

Click again on the “Astronomical Calendar 2017” tab above.  I’m adding.  It will be an intermittent process.

Venus, early 2017

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Author GuyPosted on 2016-09-292016-12-17Categories astronomyTags Astronomical Calendar, astronomy13 Comments on Astronomical Calendar 2017, dose 2

Forty-three

Yesterday, forty-three empty chairs faced the Mexican embassy in London, mutely reproaching the government for hiding the truth about forty-three disappeared young men.

Mexico's disappeared students

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Author GuyPosted on 2016-09-272016-12-17Categories human rights and animal rightsTags Ayotzinapa, human rights, Mexico1 Comment on Forty-three

Astronomical Calendar 2017

Many have complained, a few angrily but others understandingly, about the cessation of the annual Continue reading “Astronomical Calendar 2017”

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Cutty Sark

If you were to visit me this year by means of Google Earth, you would find yourself descending on me through a lofty tangle of masts, spars, and ropes.

Cutty Sark from above

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Author GuyPosted on 2016-09-232018-03-31Categories best?, Greenwich, history, archaeology, literatureTags ships; Cutty Sark; Greenwich10 Comments on Cutty Sark

North Nods Noxward

This year it will happen on Thursday September 22, at 14:21 Universal (Greenwich) time.

Earth's seasons

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Author GuyPosted on 2016-09-202016-12-15Categories astronomy, calendar, seasons, timeTags astronomy, equinox5 Comments on North Nods Noxward

Refugees Welcome

That was the simplest and commonest version of the placards held up by the folk marching through London yesterday from Hyde Park to Parliament Square.

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Scientists and Yellow Crazy Ants

Thank heaven for science.  Or thank the enlightened government departments that support it.

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Ants infesting a sooty tern chick. Continue reading “Scientists and Yellow Crazy Ants”

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Author GuyPosted on 2016-09-172016-12-14Categories climate, environment, miscellaneousTags science; environment9 Comments on Scientists and Yellow Crazy Ants

Last Moon of Summer

Moon and Sun approach opposite crossroads in the sky.

sky scene 2016 Sep 16

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Approval Voting experiment

The lesser of two evils: that’s what many American voters Continue reading “Approval Voting experiment”

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The new Under-Standing of Eclipses

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The Under-Standing of Eclipses, by Guy Ottewell

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Author GuyPosted on 2016-09-102016-09-11Categories astronomyTags astronomy, eclipses5 Comments on The new Under-Standing of Eclipses

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