"Can anybody hear me?"

The High Frequency Instrument on board the ESA's Planck spacecraft has finished observing for cosmic microwave background, an "echo" of the Big Bang.

Drill, Baby, Drill

We know that life can flourish in very hot deep sea vents. Now there is an expedition to explore Antarctica's Lake Ellsworth, a sub-glacial lake reasonable accessible, for signs of life and sediment samples to better understand the past climate.

5 Manifestos for the Creative Life

‎"Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.”

The Rookery

I am strongly fighting the urge to write a short novel or novella and "publish" it in this blog. Working title: The Rookery.

If I do this, I plan to use the Clockwork Storybook 30 Day Challenge as a pacer to force me to finish, to get something down.

On one hand, I expect it'll come a cropper, trying to put first-ish draft prose up here on a daily basis and expect it to be not good but tolerable. On the other hand, writing means BIC and getting the words down so it can be fixed in subsequent drafts.

I know better. I know better. I know better.

Bugger.



The Rookery by James O. Veitch is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.

Skiing With Dr Strangelove

A beautiful mountain home in the Adirondacks is a cover for an abandoned Cold War missile base.

Somewhere Between Kin and Kind

Nature photographer, conservationist, and biotech entrepreneur John King had an incredibly rare encounter with a troop of mountain gorillas in Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. The gorillas passed through his camp and stopped to observe him, with a grooming him. 

The park is known to be home to 350 mountain gorillas, about half the number of known wild gorillas.

"The Prince and the Porpoise"

Erstwhile, a webcomic series based on the lesser known works of the Brothers Grimm.