A massive solar storm is bombarding Earth now, and it could supercharge the northern lights to offer a better chance of seeing dancing green auroras just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, weather permitting. The surprisingly strong solar storm — ranked as a G4 geomagnetic storm by the National Oceanic…
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“Staring at screens right before sleep turns out to be a lot worse than previously thought. Dr. Dan Siegel, clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, lays out all of the negative effects bedtime screen viewing can have on the brain and body.” via Business Insider How…
Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times The UCLA Festival of Preservation doesn’t have a motto, but if it did it might be “Give me your tired films, your huddled masses of forgotten and decaying cinema, and I will breathe fire into them and set them free.” Really. Put on every other…
Storm is coming in… If these palms look familiar they’re the same ones that were shot for my book jacket. Where do you capture this angle? From the roof of my house. Sometimes I like to shove the computer away, drop the novel I’m currently working on, and climb. Climb…
Astronaut Sends Vulcan Tribute to Leonard Nimoy From Final Frontier American astronaut Terry Virts tweeted this photo of the split-fingered Vulcan salute from the International Space Station as a tribute to actor Leonard Nimoy on Saturday. Nimoy, who played the half-human, half-Vulcan Mr. Spock on the classic television series “Star…
His artistic pursuits — poetry, photography and music in addition to acting — ranged far beyond the United Federation of Planets, but it was as Mr. Spock that Mr. Nimoy became a folk hero, bringing to life one of the most indelible characters of the last half century: a cerebral,…
By REBECCA R. RUIZ and STEVE LOHR FEB. 26, 2015 Tom Wheeler, chairman of the F.C.C., with two fellow commissioners, Mignon Clyburn, left, and Jessica Rosenworcel, right, during an open hearing on Thursday ahead of a vote on net neutrality. Credit Mark Wilson/Getty Images WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications…