The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Space exploration occupies some of my thoughts of late. Wonder what’s become of Voyager 1? The first of its kind space probe launched in 1977 when I was right out of high school? Is it out there somewhere past Pluto, still transmitting? This is the…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A major fall bird migration will begin on the evening of Tuesday, Sept. 12, according to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology bird cast. “Bird migration forecasts show predicted nocturnal migration 3 hours after local sunset,” they say in an email blast. Their forecasts come from models trained on the…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — On two fronts the imaginations of those who write science fiction are gradually coming into raw focus. For those who see the world spinning toward life-ending apocalypse, look no further than the very “cradle of civilization,” home to the Garden of Eden in the Bible, according to some…
“This is an amazing book by an amazing author. Heinrich is a naturalist of the first rank, champion ultramarathoner, woodsman of skills seldom seen in modern times, and not least, as Mind of the Raven illustrates, a nature writer of uncommon talent. By living with the ravens for many years, literally at home and in…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the continuing effort to fund the development of high speed internet across the country from revenue allocated in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed in November 2021, the Biden administration announced the release of $714 million this week to connect thousands of rural residents, farmers and business owners in…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — I don’t know about you, but deep math problems have never seemed so fun to me. They burn too much energy. Energy that could be utilized doing something much more fun, like playing baseball or the drums. Some of the smartest people I know…
EDITOR’S NOTE – YOU ARE NOT ALONE. That is the slogan for the National Alliance on Mental Illness, a non-profit organization based in Arlington, Virginia. According to this group and other sources, millions of people in the United States and all over the world are affected by mental illness each year. They say it’s important…
Lack of canine COVID-19 data fuels persisting concerns over dog-human interactions – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The SARS-CoV-2 virus that originated in a wet meat market outhouse in Wuhan, China, in 2019 from the mixture of human and animal RNA had infected more than 600 million people globally with what came to…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — All things being stable, the United States of America will launch a rocket to the moon this Wednesday for the first time since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, 50 years ago. While many critics say the billions of dollars being spent on this Artemis moon mission that…
When the Brook Trout Leaps – By Anonymous – The slender dew-tipped grasses are trembling in the breeze, The east is blushing rosy red beneath the Sun’s caress, The wild rose bends to kiss the stream—but only Nature sees, And the reed-harps play weird music just above the water cress. The quail is calling loudly…
NASA to Stream Artemis I Rollout, Briefings on Science, Tech Payloads – Staff Report – It’s true. No BS, according to NASA. We are going back to the Moon, and setting up a base to launch the trip to Mars. NASA will hold three media teleconferences the week of August 14 to preview the science…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – If I was going to hop aboard a worm hole jumping space ship to travel back in time to visit another galaxy, I think I would pick the Cartwheel Galaxy, 500 million light-years from Earth. I figure if there is a heaven in the expanding universe for…
Will the American People Be Told the Truth About Who is Responsible? By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The mysterious Havana Syndrome, called an “alleged set of medical symptoms with unknown causes experienced mostly abroad by U.S. government officials and military personnel,” is so mainstream now that it has its own Wikipedia page. So…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — There is a story lurking in the woods near here that may be a very real on the ground test of whether humans have a chance to save the planet, whether the United States will play a very real key role in this effort, and whether Democrats are…
Staff Report – GREENBELT, Md. — Early on Christmas morning, when many Americans were just waking up wondering if this would be the Christmas when Donald Trump would end up behind bars, the good scientists at NASA were busy at work as the new James Webb Space Telescope launched at 7:20 a.m. EST on an…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Vice President Kamala Harris is taking a leadership role in guiding United States policy in space, signaling that the focus of the Biden-Harris administration is going to be on the peaceful exploration of space and using our best minds in science, technology, engineering and math to help tackle the…
Staff Report – The International Space Station went on high alert on Monday when a Russian anti-satellite test destroyed a satellite in space, creating a sufficient debris field to pose a threat to the station and its crew, according to a statement by NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “Earlier today, due to the debris generated by…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A proposal for a new space telescope that will study the recent history of star birth and death along with the chemical elements that formed the Milky Way has been selected by NASA and is expected to launch in 2025. The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) is a gamma-ray…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – New scientific research conducted at White Sands National Park in New Mexico has uncovered the oldest known human footprints in North America. The discovery reveals evidence of human occupation in the Tularosa Basin beginning at least 23,000 years ago, thousands of years earlier than previously thought. The fossilized human…
By Glynn Wilson – While a theory of a possible leak from a government science lab in Wuhan, China has dominated the news coverage especially on social media on the origin of the novel coronavirus that led to the global Covid-19 pandemic and how the strain SARS-CoV-2 jumped from animals to humans, and this was…
