The boom of a cannon shook my window Continue reading “Vikings come raiding again”
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Assos and Lesbos
This is the water across which the refugees are swarming from the Middle East into Europe.
The Thousand-Yard Model in a London park
British Science Week is March 11 to 20: Continue reading “The Thousand-Yard Model in a London park”
Wallace and the track of next week’s eclipse
The first of this year’s two total eclipses is drawing near: March 9, to be seen from within a narrow path across the Earth:
Continue reading “Wallace and the track of next week’s eclipse”
The most beautiful place in the world
We learned from a recent newspaper item that there is a list of Britain’s “Top Ten Beaches,” calculated Continue reading “The most beautiful place in the world”
Tell them in Lacedaemon
A reader writes that she did see Leonidas in the sky.
That’s wonderful! Continue reading “Tell them in Lacedaemon”
Propositions Underfoot
When the pilgrims arrived at the scene of my Astronomical Calendar 2016 cover picture, they had walked more than five hundred miles Continue reading “Propositions Underfoot”
A confession about the Final Astronomical Calendar
If you could have looked down through my ceiling during the evenings – not just the evenings – of Continue reading “A confession about the Final Astronomical Calendar”
Science and Counter-Science
Dengue is nicknamed “breakbone fever” because of the excruciating pain it causes. Continue reading “Science and Counter-Science”
