The NY Times has created a slide show of famous American space suits, featuring those worn by John Glenn, Buzz Aldrin, and Gus Grissom.  Check out the very suit that Alan Shepard pissed in!  (No visible effects.) The Smithsonian will send the suits on a traveling expedition this year, as detailed in this related article.

More news from the World o’ Science. NASA has announced that observations from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope show that  thunderstorms generate antimatter. Scientists long have suspected TGFs [Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash] arise from the strong electric fields near the tops of thunderstorms. Under the right conditions, they say, the field becomes strong enough that it […]

It occurs to me that in the last year, three of my former Taos Toolbox students sold novels.  (In fact, one sale wasn’t just a novel, it was a whole trilogy.) While I can’t guarantee that every Toolbox graduate will sell a novel, I think the data support the notion that it will increase your […]

We went to see The King’s Speech, which was quite good even though there were no surprises, because I’d seem the same story dramatized in a television movie a couple years ago.  The story was the same, but the climactic scene was different: in the TV movie, the big scene was George VI’s first speech […]