Travel & places

I was in Cambridge last week and did a walking tour there (when it wasn’t raining) called 800 Years of Death and Disease in Cambridge. Sounds cheerful, doesn’t it? This …

Last week, my friend Maria asked me a question about sunset time that I didn’t know the answer to because it’s totally outside my field of expertise. But I knew …

Nuit Blanche was four weeks ago, but I’m reliving the days of having photos developed and printed by waiting so long to show the pictures. I managed to check out …

Completely unable to spend an entire month away from a work or education environment, I visited a school during my recent trip to Australia. But even though the school year …

Science news reporting is generally slow. Unlike sports reporting, for example, you won’t hear something until months after it happened. Today, the New York Times reports on the exciting find …

A lot of scientific equipment is carefully designed to do exactly what is needed for the experiments in question. But sometimes regular objects work just as well, or even better. …