Sunny early, cloudy later. If I don't start going out soon I'm going to miss this whole summer, too. Our high was 86˚F, with the heat index at 90˚F ( Read more... )

I've pretty much stayed mum regarding the recent kerfuffle over what is and is not a planet, the demotion of Pluto to the status of a "dwarf planet." I have done so, mostly, because I cannot see that this is anything more than the waste of resources on an issue that is purely semantic, not genuinely scientific. It's the same sort of typological ( Read more... )