Stream of consciousness Spooky beach 15 Sep 20197 Sep 2019 All powerful sun, lighting up a solar system...and here I stand, under a tiny cloud, as I apparently must, not getting its full blast in my face. Not that I…
Stream of consciousness Remember a piece of history 12 Sep 20194 Sep 2019 The very first photograph of a solar eclipse: From the source: Johann Julius Friedrich Berkowski made the first solar eclipse photograph on July 28, 1851, also using the daguerrotype process,…
Science Storytelling Photographing the sunset 7 Sep 20195 Aug 2019 There are moments you treasure for the rest of your life. When I sat there the other day, at that little place I once facetiously called the least spectacular beach…
Nerdy stuff Who says there’s “fun” in physics? 3 Sep 201925 Aug 2019 Making fun of physics is difficult. Sure, you can go Sitcom-style and make fun of people, the scientists. But making fun of science itself? What's the Sheldon Cooper of actual…
Stream of consciousness The balance of forces 29 Aug 201927 Aug 2019 A star. Our star. The Sun. Something pushing inwards, something pushing outwards. The balance between those two things is such that the Sun looks like (or close to) this to…
Stream of consciousness Recent tectonics 15 Aug 201917 Aug 2019 The fault line in this image was created "Less than 10 million years ago." In other words, and as the source claims, rather "recent"-ly. Let me write that again: The…
Stream of consciousness Look what’s hiding there! 19 May 20199 May 2019 I have no idea what that foreground object really is - and I'm the one who should know. I work at the place which owns the thing.... © 2019 Alexander…
Stream of consciousness Can’t wait! 7 Apr 201929 Mar 2019 Man, I'll probably bore you with this already, going on, as I am, about Earth's nutation and what that does to the weather… Enough with the snow already. Our days…
Stream of consciousness I’m going to bed now 31 Mar 2019 It's part of my daily routine. If I'm at home and the weather permits it, I'm on my way outside to find stories. Sometimes, these stories can be quite elaborate,…
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