Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
For the last reading list of 2020, I have three very different suggestions. The only thing they have in common is that all of them are extremely interesting and well-written books. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. Now, this one is…
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Yes, we have another Moon eclipse to watch on November 29/30 –in the early morning hours of Monday (ET time). Space.com gives details about how to pick the best observation conditions: “The moon will take 4 hours and 21 minutes…
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They were just in the news this week: announcements of launches that followed up one after another. Space X is about to launch not one but two rockets, just a week after it took four astronauts to the International Space…
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Even if it is now mid-November, I have not forgotten about my three monthly books, and I am actually almost done with them: I have only neglected to write out them here. I’ll do it now. God’s Wolf: The Life…
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I have been writing about space debris in totally different (mainly academic) settings, and, considering how dangerous debris can be to working satellites and the ISS, it sounds strange to me that specialised press and people in the business don’t…
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Halloween offered us with a fantastic full moon –quite a rare view, to be sure. As a matter of fact, it was, as space.com called it “a truly special confluence of spookiness; a Halloween full moon visible for most time…
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The woman with the long black hair sat beside an angler on the dock. “Tell me of Korlova,” she said. “You mean Klorava? Ha!” The angler’s laugh turned into a coughing fit, remedied only by a puff from his pipe….
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Yes, it is official. The Leap Year this time not only brought us Iphone 12, as Apple’s ads informed us a few days ago; it also got in store yet another Berserk episode before the end of the year and…
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Hello everybody. In this Covid-19 (returning or ever-present, depending on which part of the globe you find yourself) madness, it is easy to forget to look up at the sky. Still, we have a lot of good reasons we should,…
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September has just ended, but the books I had on my table were over long before. I am already at an advanced stage in my October reading list. Which looks like this: In the Name of the Family: A Novel…
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