LEARNING CURVE ON THE ECLIPTIC

The Google logo makeover. I did wonder. This piece offers explanation - boils down to the fact that the new logo's style is easier to s...

These two musical stars have birthdays this week: Chrissie Hynde , lead singer of The Pretenders , born 7 September, 1951 in Akron, Ohio. ...

 Hat-tip for illustration HERE What often begins as a passing interest in astrology, sparked by curiosity, could easily develop into an u...

It seems fitting that artists with Sun in zodiac sign Virgo should gravitate towards precision and minimalism: geometric shapes, clean lines...

I was entertained earlier this week by this piece at Salon : The secret history of “Y’all”: The murky origins of a legendary Southern slan...

Continuing the series of monthly posts on Fixed Stars in each tropical zodiac sign. Data for Virgo from Astroweb (HERE) , showing star po...

These are some verses from a poem by W.H. Auden. The poem is titled 1 September 1939. It was written more than 75 years ago, with World ...

Hugo Montegro, described ( HERE ) as "One of the great chameleons of space-age pop, Montenegro could be wild, innovative, swinging, se...

Flicking through my archives, looking back for a spot of inspiration I came across three posts written in August/September of 2007, during a...

 Howdy Neighbour (1936) Alexandre Hogue . Who was he? I didn't know. I do now. Born on 22 February 1898 in Memphis, Missouri, mo...

Not much today - just a link to this: Police Drones Can Fly with Tasers, Tear Gas in N. Dakota , by Tracy Staedter. end, a, wedge, of, th...

Ogden Nash's poetry and comments on life never fail to bring a smile and a nod. In this piece he had, all unknowingly, written a descr...

 Jupiter Online astrologers have recently been regaling us with theories of how Jupiter's recent move, from Leo into Virgo, will ...

  Mason Williams & Smothers Brothers. Happy Birthday Mason Williams! Mason Williams (born August 24, 1938), an American guitarist ...

This piece, by Chris Weigant, puts forward an intriguing possibility - he does state emphatically that he's writing not about probabil...

Born this day in 1823, Nathaniel Everett Green, artist, teacher and astronomer. To save my typing fingers a little biographical detail borro...