If you didn’t catch the release earlier this week, the groovy folks at Symphony of Science have released a new video.  This one features Carl Sagan, Robert Jastrow, Michio Kaku and some Richard Dawkinsy goodness. Now I know you want to get your galactic groove on to the rest of the videos. Man, the song [...]

We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens . . . The diversity of the phenomena of Nature is so great, and [...]

Hidey ho neighbor!  I know, I know, long time no see with the blogity blog.  Well I’m here to bring you up to date with an entry that’s one part “What I Did on My Summer Vacation”, one part “Contact”, with a pinch “National Lampoon’s Vacation,” and a smudge of “Fear and Loathing in Las [...]

Hello!  Sorry so “silent” lately – the normal school workload, plus some extra reading for the summer coming up, plus trying to get the UC Observatory up and running makes Davin something something.  Well, I guess that would be “deblogged.”  When things get to the point where I only have 3 budgeted mouse clicks per [...]

Hey-yo! I’m back from the dead like a George Romero Zombie! Between homework, lab reports, weekly exams, daily floggings with slide rules (yes, that’s what they do with them now) a few projects that fell into my lap, trying to spend a few quanta with my overworked 32 hour shift resident-bride, and working on my [...]

“Additional ZZ Top Tickets Released.” First day of school here – physics, math and goemorphology, oh my!  Still plan on writing no matter what, just need a few days to get all my books in a row – and I’ll be back with a blogging vengance.  Blogging Vengance!!!

I was hiking through the forest yesterday when I noticed a sign posted by the side of the trail.  The sign’s quote reminds us of the importance in sharing our curiosity and fascination with the natural world. If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at [...]

PANERA HAS RUN OUT OF BREAD!   PANERA HAS RUN OUT OF BREAD!  Save yourselves!  Cover your eyes from the volley of croutons!  They’re pouring delicious boiling creamy tomato soup on the masses from the towers! This city-wide power outage is really pretty crazy – massive lines at gas stations, very few restaurants open, and no [...]

As the flailing limbs of disembodied Hurricane Ike approached Western Ohio, little fuss was made by the local weathermen about it.  A wind warning was issued, but the local forecasters didn’t think much would come of it other than high frisbee golf scores, or Carson Palmer passes sailing on Ocho Cinco.  So when the front [...]

The Astronomy Picture of the Day is of one of my favorite nebulae, the “Heart and Soul” nebulae located in the conestellation Cassiopeia.  Like the human heart’s invention of poetry, so much can be said with so little words – the image of this natural wonder speaks for itself. The human heart, like this distant [...]