We’ve done it again. Created a calendar, featuring photos from our 2009 trips. Which were all in the Rocky Mountain areas, so there are many pictures of pointy things. The calendar is 13.5″ x 19″, printed on glossy stock, and includes astronomical data as well as holidays for the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. (Did you […]

The winners have been announced in the recent competition from the American Association for the Advancement of Science— the “Dance Your Ph.D.” Competition, in which doctoral dissertations are illuminated by dance routines. There’s stiff competition here, but I have to say that my favorite was one of the runners-up, “Individual Differences in Exploratory Behavior of […]

Our Founding Paternalists bounced the established church back in 1776. Turns out that, as we didn’t keep the C of E on the government payroll, we not only failed to have the necessary background to fully appreciate Trollope’s Barchester novels, but we also missed some amusing radio ads.Something called the Churches Advertising Network sponsored a […]

I recently finished watching the first season of Mad Men, courtesy of Netflix. The series poses an interesting fictional problem: is it possible to tell a gripping story when everyone in your narrative is a total rat-bastard?In this particular case, the answer would seem to be No. I don’t insist on sympathetic characters in my […]