Run, Don't Walk
I don't generally exhort people to go out and buy things, but this will just have to be the exception. You might have heard a certain band interviewed on Science Friday last week. If you care about science at all, if you're remotely interested, have kids that you want to interest, or are just a bit of a fan, then you need to get the new disc from They Might Be Giants, Here Comes Science. Even if you're not a fan of TMBG - and to be honest, while I like them, they're not my favourite musical combo - the lyrical content is fantastic. Good solid science, presented for children and adults alike.

NASA Swag
Science Club at our humble little science store is a meeting held on Saturdays where school children from kindergarten through the eighth grade can come monthly to hear discussions of various science topics. This year, being not only the International Year of Science but also the International Year of Astronomy, the four hundredth anniversary of Galileo's observations with a telescope, the bi-centennary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the one hundred fiftieth anniv

Carl Sagan, Rebooted
Every science blogger and their brother seems to have posted a certain video recently, featuring the much-lamented and much-missed Carl Sagan. However, there may yet be one or two people who still haven't seen it yet (why they'd be reading my blog, I have no idea). A word of introduction, first: if you like the style of the AutoTune the News videographers, or just find it strangely interesting, then you may well like this (not by the same group, just so you know):Carl Sagan was central to my early understanding of and love for the sciences, and this is a

Awesome
Just noticed my Google adverts in the sidebar... the top one is for the very drool-worthy TeleVue Ethos eyepiece. Finally - adverts that I can actually agree with!

Back Into the Fray
It's been an inexcusably long time, faithful reader (by now, I'm sure that my inactivity has whittled you down to the singular).I'd plead all of the usual rubbish... witter, witter - illness. Maunder, maunder - return to full-time work. Cribbet, cribbet - life and family offline. And it'd all be true, but you're not really caring about that, so let's just press on, shall we?I've been reading, and writing, as it happens, just not posting. Here's an example, taken from some of my thoughts about the execrable Unscientific America:"... In the face of a growing movement of scientists writing cogent and trenchant