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.

What with all the worries about the bees disappearing, and the end of the world that will follow shortly thereafter, it’s very comforting to just sit and watch bees visit and pollinate my booming crop of lavender [more...]
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The revival of Doctor Who in 2005 was, all told, more immediately successful than the revival of Star Trek in 1987. Still, that Star Trek revival had an incredible longevity, resulting in 24 years worth of spinoffs [more...]