A rare “disrupted binary pulsar” has been discovered by three amateur scientists using their home computers. The discoverers, from the US and Germany found the object with the help of the Einstein@Home project. It asks users to donate time on their computers, allowing them to be used for searching through scientific data. This type of […]

Friend of the blog Foxessa pointed me at an article about our floundering recovery from Paul Krugman. The lights are going out all over America — literally. Colorado Springs has made headlines with its desperate attempt to save money by turning off a third of its streetlights, but similar things are either happening or being […]

It has to be said we had a deeply cultured and civilized weekend. Saturday afternoon I went to the world premiere of a locally-made low-budget Western called The Righteous and the Wicked.  (This was not the civilized part.)  It featured a number of local actors, some of whom I know, and was made for a […]

Damme,  ma’am!   I so love a good milling-match, especially when a peg to the snot-locker taps the claret!