Dancing the Dance of Stars and Space
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope provides a spectacular image of the bright star-forming ring that surrounds the heart…
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A Day With Robert Schumann
IN this month's PLEASURES OF MUSIC, an 1884 report by May Byron on A DAY WITH ROBERT SCHUMANN.…
From Earth’s Caves, A Better Understanding of Mars
Dr. Penny Boston is exploring some of the most extreme environments on earth--the Snowy River Cave, the Cave…
What Christmas Is As We Grow Older
Writing in his twopenny weekly, Household Words, in 1851, CHARLES DICKENS penned one of his most thoughtful Yuletide…
GMO Labeling: Just Give Us Some Truth
ON Nov. 6 California voters rejected Prop 37, an initiative that would have required food manufacturers to label…
Auroras
In 1879 John Muir went to Alaska for the first time. Its stupendous living glaciers aroused his unbounded…
A Classic Animated Christmas
From the vaults, classics indeed: 1939's 'Peace on Earth,' the only cartoon ever nominated for a Nobel…
THE SMALL ONE (1978)
From Disney and director Don Bluth comes the 1978 animated gem, THE SMALL ONE, the simple, sweet story…
Baby Penguins Everywhere!: A Chat with Melissa Guion
I welcome new-to-the-field illustrator MELISSA GUION. She’s here to share some of her bright, gentle watercolors and talk…
A-Caroling They Go…
Everyone knows about 'A Child's Christmas in Wales,' thanks to Dylan Thomas's eloquence, but what exactly goes on…