Larry Predicts a Red Nova in 2022
I was just reading in Astronomy Magazine that astronomers have predicted that a binary pair of stars will merge into one in 2022, and set off an explosion called a red nova, similar to this image of V838 Monocerotis, from … Read More
Schrödinger’s Cat in Space!
Conduct your own experiment with Schrödinger’s Cat in space! Go to APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day) and press the button to see if the astronaut is holding a picture of a live cat or a dead one. You have … Read More
March 31 Snowfall
Here it is, March 31 and snowing. (Sigh.) Kind of pretty, though. The forecasters can’t decide whether we’re just going to have real snow pile up, or just get soggy.
The Joy of Rewriting
Rewriting is sometimes joyous, but usually it’s a finicky and ornery-making process. You never know what chapters are going to give you the most trouble. I recently finished some fairly heavy reworking of a series of chapters in my will-I-ever-get-this-finished … Read More
My Sister Nancy Loses Her Fight with Cancer
My sister, Nancy Carver Adams, lost an astonishingly brief battle with lung cancer Monday night. Her death came as a terrible shock. She was not a smoker, and it was the flu and pneumonia that took her to the hospital, … Read More
Love the Weather, Hate the Climate (Change)
I went out biking today with a glorious, record-breaking temperature of 72 degrees in Boston in February. I can’t deny it was wonderful, a great day for walking, biking, dogging. Here is a selfie of me out on the bike … Read More