Cool photos from yesterday’s Annular Eclipse (not “annual,” as the local television news ticker kept insisting).
This one shows the image of the eclipse projected through natural pin-hole cameras: a leafy tree.

One of the cool things about the new series of Doctor Who is the way they’ve worked continuing storylines — or rather, hints — through the series. Since the beginning, the words “Bad Wolf” [more...]
But of course, no one wants to buy iPhones, iPads, or Macs.
This is the sort of amazing thing that I wish our taxes would be spent more on. Gramatically dubious, I know, but just watch this sample video of ocean surface currents over two years.