Monday, January 24, 2022

Cursing the Moon

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Astronomers seem universally aligned against SpaceX Starlink. In point of fact, except for the selenologists who actually study the Moon, mo...
Sunday, January 23, 2022

Massive Constellations of Artificial Satellites: What if they were natural?

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Many of my colleagues in astronomy, both professional and amateur, are vocal in their opposition to Starlink, the SpaceX project that is pla...
Saturday, January 15, 2022

The Invention of Enterprise

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The Invention Of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship  from Ancient Mesopotamia To Modern Times.  David S. Landes, Joel Mokyr, William J. Baumol,.  ...
Friday, December 31, 2021

Censorship in Cyberspace 1991-2021

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I placed myself outside the accepted norms on two discussion boards for amateur astronomers, The Sky Searchers and Cloudy Nights. I withdrew...
Sunday, December 19, 2021

Cultured Carrot Fermented Foods

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How do you get your kids to eat sauerkraut? For Kristin Simpson, the solution was to develop a line of fermented foods that their palates wo...
Saturday, December 11, 2021

Merry Newtonmas 2021

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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night; God said "Let Newton be" and all was light.   If your neighborhood is like ours, th...
Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Funky Mello: Feel Good Marshmellows

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We have not been treated to vendors at the Wheatsville Co-op since Covid started and it was a pleasant shock to see Delisa and Zach of Funky...
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Two Deep Sky Targets

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 On 28 November, I viewed the Double Cluster in Perseus for the first time. The following night, I was able to find the globular cluster Mes...
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Learning Lyra

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My spatial reasoning scores are always lower than my verbal acuity grades. Consequently, the standard star charts for Lyra, a simple quadril...