by admin | Jul 15, 2010 | News
Last Tuesday, July 6th, the thermometer hit 105˚ down in Baltimore. In a heat-induced spasm of self-pity, I turned to the record books, hoping to find there an even more miserable temperature from the city’s past. I found one — and only one —...
by admin | Jul 8, 2010 | News
The great disappointment of this year’s Wimbledon was not that we were denied another classic championship match between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. Rather, it was watching Federer behave badly. Sportsmanship is still alive and well in the world of...
by admin | Jul 1, 2010 | News
In keeping with the theme of friendly skies, which I touched on last week, I’d like to dedicate this column to the intrepid spirit of the earliest aviators, who first demonstrated that earth need not be mankind’s prison, but instead could be a sublime...
by admin | Jun 24, 2010 | News
This is the time of year to be sky-minded. Orioles, finches, and hummingbirds paint the morning air with flashes of orange, yellow, and green. The walnut tree behind our house becomes an aerial battlefield, its leaves providing cover for territorial dogfights, even as...
by admin | Jun 17, 2010 | News
Over the years, I’ve built some strange things: a floating dock; a revolving bookcase; central air conditioning. But I’ve never gone it alone. At least, not completely. For guidance, there’s always been a magazine article, or a website, or, in the...
by admin | Jun 10, 2010 | News
We left off last week in the middle of the great space race of the 18th century: the international competition to solve the problem of finding longitude at sea, kicked off by an Act of Parliament in England in 1714 that established a huge cash prize for anyone who...
