Update on this article (5/1). I had two different things on my mind and did not get them separated! Let's try again. There's been a lot of talk in the news about new Artificial Intelligence entities that do pictures or words. People worry about whether they will take over the world or cause all artists [...]
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An Easter picture and an old picture.
I'm in the middle of thinking about Saint Bernard and reading the lovely book George sent me about Dante and astronomy but not ready to write. So today two pictures. One from the Episcopalian cathedral several years ago at Easter. And two, a picture of Thor when he was a baby... ; ) (I think [...]
Guest Post: Dr. Lucy Hancock on dust rings around Earth (bumped)
This is the presentation Dr. Lucy Hancock gave at a session on space weather at the Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society's session on Space Weather, in January, 2022. Dr. Hancock presented an anomaly in solar radiation data, and suggested it be explained as the effect of space dust shading the line of sight [...]
Spinning is medieval but…
When I was nineteen I worked at the Natural History Museum, part of the Smithsonian Institution in DC, for the summer. I was an intern for a meteoriticist, someone who worked on meteorites, not the weather. The job was interesting of itself, but I also went out at lunch and wandered around other museums. The [...]
Another Longfellow poem!
After Longfellow died his brother, Samuel Longfellow, wrote a book about him and included the below poem. It was actually written in 1842, when Longfellow was 35 years old but it was only published in 1886. The title, "Mezzo Cammin," is Italian for the middle of life. The words come from the opening line of [...]
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