In this photo from Astronomy Picture of the Day, Hurrican Ivan looks almost malevolent. via brisingamen.
Category: Science
Blue Moon
Tonight is a Blue Moon. This NASA site explains the origins of the term.
Happy Equinox
The Astronomy Picture of the Day illustrates the spring equinox.
Horse and Lunar Calendar
I enjoyed the photo of the cave painting in this BBC article about the Oldest lunar calendar identified.
Vegetable Empire
While looking for some information about how perl scopes variables, I found Steve’s place- Vegetable Empire, an entertaining page which includes information about carnivorous plants and other oddities. The page about the plants will take a while to load if you are on a slow connection. His perl tutorials also look excellent.
Astronomy POD
The APOD: 2003 August 9 – A Perseid Aurora was taken in Colorado at Hahn’s Peak in 2000.
The Truth About Obesity
The Truth About Obesity is an interesting series of articles about the “epidemic of obesity” in modern industrial cultures.
APOD: 2003 July 22
Although I like to take dramatic photos of the sky, I hope I never take one quite as dramatic as this one from Astronomy Picture of the Day: 2003 July 22.
One of the frustrations of beta testing is that I can’t talk about the latest cool new thing in TypePad, which I am using right now. I found out about it in the Changelog notes.