In case you didn’t notice, baseball’s annual opening day was a little unusual this year.  Oh, I’m not talking about the one most fans greeted with joy earlier this week.  That day was just fine, even if one score (14 – 10) looked like it was a football result from last November.               No, […]

              Brian Greene is one of those people who study the universe in ways that most of the rest of us don’t even have the ability to contemplate.  He is a top astro-physicist who, for over 30 years, has been considering what kind of very small stuff might be the most basic of items that […]

              Have you seen the new “Cosmos” yet?  If not, you need to check it out.  It’s based on the series that Carl Sagan developed and used to introduce a whole generation to the wonders of science back in 1980.  In its reincarnated state, it is hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who, if he […]

              When I left my office last Friday at around 6:30, it was dark, as in night-time dark.  I wasn’t surprised or particularly depressed.  After all, I’d been dealing with the same experience for the past four months.               But something must have happened over the weekend, because when I left my office on Monday […]