Category Archives: Everyday Science

Yahoo – This Dec.1965 photo released by NASA shows waves of clouds along the east flanks of the Andes Mountains casting off an orange glow by the low angle of the sun in the West as photographed during the Gemini … Continue reading →

  Eight Nations set to get $150 laptops – C/net News From Brazil to Pakistan, some of the world’s poorest children will peer across the digital divide this month–reading electronic books, shooting digital video, creating music and chatting with classmates … Continue reading →

This time of year I get to thinking about time and calendars. One of my projects, well one that I have been thinking about for a couple of years, is to save all my calendars and reuse them as they … Continue reading →

I purchased the Statistical Abstract of the United States, which comes out every year. The facts and figures from the U.S. are very interesting to me albeit sometimes disappointing. For example, the 1996 version, which is the one I have, … Continue reading →