Astronomy Mar. 11, 2015 Rise Set Actual Time 7:09 AM PDT 6:57 PM PDT
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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…
I have been increasingly conscious, for the last 10 years or so, of deaths among my contemporaries. My generation is on the way out, and each death I have felt as an abruption, a tearing away of part of myself. There will be no one like us when we are…
One forecast group expects the coldest third week of February on record in the eastern United States. Why is this happening? Partly, it goes back to last fall. In Siberia. “There was a big ramp-up of something we call the snowfall advance index during the month of October in Siberia,”…
FRAYN First of all, I don’t think it is strange to be both novelist and playwright. I wonder why others don’t do both. I think the great difference is that in a novel it is possible for the writer to be inside the head of at least one of…