The civil war in Yemen is the most intense current humanitarian tragedy. Continue reading “Good things are starting to happen”
Category: climate, environment
Tide of birds
The Thames today would be so high it would be up to Continue reading “Tide of birds”
Semitic Delights
Snow fell yesterday.
World Smiles Tentatively
On Wednesday January 20 comes the inauguration of Joe Biden, 46th president of the United States of America.
Of Frogs and Stars
The limerick’s less than idyllic
And yet there are rules to this lyric.
It needs at all times
Three ridiculous rhymes
And a meter quite smoothly dactylic. Continue reading “Of Frogs and Stars”
Meteor and metaphor
The annual Geminid meteor shower may be already strong in the night of December 13/14 Continue reading “Meteor and metaphor”
High-powered view
Jupiter and Saturn, as shown in Continue reading “High-powered view”
Dark Star
The Drake equation is a way of estimating the likelihood that we will ever contact life elsewhere in the universe. Continue reading “Dark Star”
Equation at maximum, jaguar at minimum
Here is the sky at midnight between November 2 and 3. Continue reading “Equation at maximum, jaguar at minimum”
RBG and RGB
Acronyms trip us up. AI: you think you’re about to learn something about Artificial Intelligence, but it’s Amnesty International. RGB is one I have to worry about, when making colored illustrations – should I be using Red-Green-Blue mode, or Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black, CMYK?
