the Wood between Worlds

While on a quest to save the human race, astronauts in the film Interstellar travel to a foreign planet orbiting closely around a supermas...

I was looking just now, and realized it's been two years since my last update. This blog is kind of a weird thing. It started as a wa...

There are at least hundreds of thousands (or even millions) of people around the world who were shocked to hear that Nelson Mandela died r...

The universe is an awfully big place.  Granted, most of it is empty space.  But within that empty space, there are trillions of stars.  Mayb...

A few weeks ago, Professor Ben Zuckerman spoke at my school. He is one of the editors of the popular book "Extraterrestrials: Where A...

In case you aren't familiar with it the Voynich Manuscript  (pictured at left) is currently one of the bigger linguistic mysteries out...

In days past and in lands forgotten - certainly far before either you or I were born - there in that far-away land stood a great kingdom.  ...