Sally Ride, First American Woman In Space, Is Dead

I’m never going to be a Californian, but at least now I can say I am definitely a resident. Today is the day when I got California license plates. I forlornly removed the old plates… … and put on a set[more...]

Lavinia Smith, the noted virologist and the aunt of well-known journalist Sarah Jane Smith, has died. She was 81. Well, actually, Mary Wimbush — the actress who played that part — has died. She was on BBC[more...]