by admin | Jun 28, 2012 | News
Unlike my daughter, I’m not a huge fan of the circus, but one of the most thrilling live performances I’ve ever seen involved a family of seven, a wobbling human pyramid, and a high wire. This was in Sarasota, Florida, once the winter home of the Barnum...
by admin | Jun 21, 2012 | News
As tall ships and fireworks mark the bicentennial of the War of 1812, the conflict that gave Perry County its name by way of the naval hero Oliver Hazard Perry, it’s worth asking a simple question: Why don’t we remember that war very well? The War of 1812...
by admin | Jun 14, 2012 | News
An event like last week’s solar transit of Venus tends to make a splash in our neighborhood in Baltimore, which is about a mile up the road from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STSI), headquarters of the Hubble Space Telescope. On Tuesday, while...
by admin | Jun 7, 2012 | News
Two years ago, in these pages, I wrote about an amazing feat of robotic engineering. It was the summer of Deepwater Horizon. We didn’t know the full extent of the spill at the time, which would eventually be tallied in millions of barrels of crude, but the...
by admin | May 31, 2012 | News
You know you’re living in modern times when the chatter at the bakery counter isn’t about weather, or politics, or even the high price of gasoline, but instead about Facebook’s I.P.O “I’m thinking of getting me some of that Facebook...
by admin | May 24, 2012 | News
A few weeks ago, Harvard University and MIT announced a new joint venture called edX, an experiment in online learning that promises to throw open the gates of these elite institutions and make world-class educational content available — for free — to...
