Tag Archives: astronomy
the astronomer so nice, they’ve dug him up twice
At the beginning of Thanksgiving week, a group of scientists were gathering in Prague to do something a little odder than buying a turkey: exhuming a 15th-century astronomer. The astronomer was Tycho Brahe. He was a weird guy. He lost … Continue reading
very cold, very dry, very calm
Here’s the story I was talking about yesterday. Yeah, it’s in German. Google Translator actually does a pretty good job with it – select German to English, paste the URL in the box, and it’ll show you the page in … Continue reading