by Pamela | Jun 17, 2007 | Entertainment
My favorite painting is currently on display at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and I was just able to get my own framed copy of it for my office! Part of the traveling, “Leonardo da Vinci and the Splendor of Poland,” exhibit, this painting by Jan Matejko...
by Pamela | Jun 16, 2007 | Random
Do not try to navigate by the stars while walking some place that moles live. Locate the direction. Locate the mole hole. Only walk after doing both. We have moles. Lots of moles. And a bunch of trees blocking the southern horizon. Clearly a telescope pier on the roof...
by Pamela | Jun 16, 2007 | Space Craft
One of the things that NASA and the Russian Federal Space Agency have each proven over and over again is that astro/cosmonauts are the best construction workers in and off this world. In my mind, there is only one reason for us to send people into space for...
by Pamela | Jun 14, 2007 | Space Carnival
It’s that time of the week again – Carnival time! The following is a selection of Space Science reports from all around the Internet. As you read through the following entries, I hope you will find some new content from new voices who will join your daily...
by Pamela | Jun 13, 2007 | Personal
This week astronomer Mike Brown and graduate student Emily Schaller released new results showing the Kuiper Belt object Eris is 27% more massive then Pluto (which is a few more percentage points more massive than was previously known. Neither object is a planet....