I was up at 3:30 this morning, and by 4 I was out walking our dogs. There was just a hint of dawn in the northeastern sky, and there was a ...

Global warming (or the allegation of it, at least) has implications for the tourism business. One of those implications is that you can now...

The Phoenix lander has started doing what it was made to do: investigate the northern plains of Mars. The science team at Tuscon must be ju...

Some interesting observations about the web sites used by Al Qaeda and their supporters: Al Qaeda web sites are making a lot of noise about...

That's the title of a New York Post article that starts like this: The polar bears are doing just fine, thank you very much. So says Al...

Here's a fine mosaic put together by the Phoenix team from many individual images. Eventually they'll have the entire site mapped w...

Of parachuting, that is. This is just amazing: NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander can be seen parachuting down to Mars, in this image captured ...

Something to get you in the pondering frame of mind, on this Memorial Day: The lyrics: If you’re readin’ this My momma’s sittin’ there Looks...

Here's the first of what will be many to follow – a spectacular mosaic of color images taken at various elevations along a single azimut...

Today we celebrate Memorial Day, a day set aside to remember the soldiers, sailors, and others of the United States who gave their lives de...

Feet on another world – the Phoenix lander's three padded feet are solidly in place on the hard ground the northern reaches of Mars. Th...

Phoenix has landed! The lander is safe, all systems are functioning nominally, and it is tilted only by about 0.25°. From indications so f...

To my surprise, the NASA TV channel carried by DISH is apparently not going to cover the Phoenix landing. Strange. But, NASA TV on the we...

Here's the opening of an open letter from two Iranian-Americans (mother and daughter) to Barack Obama: May 24, 2008 Dear Senator Barack...

From Ron Liddle's latest column, a couple of selected passages: You would think that by now Allah’s message might be getting through. T...

The Phoenix Mars Lander is on the final leg of its long journey to Mars, and if all goes well it will land this afternoon at just before 5 ...

Yesterday I picked up a small package from an eBay seller located in Kazakhstan. I purchased an interesting Soviet-era slide rule from this...

Just two days ago the weather forecast called for “chance of patchy drizzle”, which generally means (for us) slightly denser than normal fog...

One of our Democratic Senators who is always amongst the leaders for the coveted title of “Intellectual Midget of the Senate” has weighed in...

It seems a number of gas station pumps have the “Gas at 4 Bucks” (G4B) bug : Mom-and-pop service stations are running into a problem as gaso...