New Moon Found Circling Kuiper Belt Dwarf Planet
The Kuiper Belt is an area beyond Neptune that hosts a number of dwarf planets (a status poor Pluto was reduced to back...
Monthly Archive: April 2016
Bridgeport City Council Gets Budget Adviser
It is nice to see that my hometown Bridgeport City Council is hiring an outside budget adviser, although it seems a bit...
Getting To Universal Coverage
One of the signature proposals in Bernie Sanders’ campaign is universal health care coverage, or “Medicare For All” as he likes to...
Employment Up, Productivity Down – A Theory
A front page article in the NY Times today proposes three theories as to why productivity seems to be lagging even...
No Water For Venezuelan Electricity
This article about the collapse of electricity production in Venezuela focuses on the corruption and economic mismanagement in that country. But...
Stanely Cup Update
Last night, the Nashville Predators scored two first period goals, survived a crossbar on an open net in the second period and a post...
Astrophotography Adventure (cont'd) – Getting Better
I was pretty happy with my last attempt at astrophotography using my iPhone through the Starblast 4.5. There were still some focus issues...
Carly and Cruz – Perfect Together
I’m not quite sure CruzCarly! is going to be what it takes to stop the Trump train. In fact, I’m pretty sure it won’t. Though...
Stanley Cup – Second Round Predictions
The second round of the NHL playoffs begin tonight as well as the deciding game 7 of the final first round matchup...
Trump and Clinton Near Nomination
The results are in from the “Northeast” primary and, as expected, Trump and Clinton both had resounding wins across the region. ...