You most likely recall this introductory phrase from Dr. McCoy’s standard STO dialog. It was almost always followed by “not a bricklayer,” “not a psychic,” […]
Read MoreMedicine Man
This afternoon, I read a Medscape item on Phase I trials of medicinal mushrooms and Chinese herbs as treatments for COVID. The mushrooms in question […]
Read MorePho, please
I think that the first time I had pho was sometime in the late 1990s or early 2000s. My supervisor at the State Long Term […]
Read MoreReturn of the Lepidoptera
This afternoon we saw Queen butterflies and even a Question Mark butterfly visiting the Blue Mistflower. The Queens are very graceful, and the Question marks […]
Read MoreLast Night Under the Stars
Last night’s targets included globular clusters Messier 2 and Messier 56, galaxy Messier 77 and galaxy NGC 253. All of the images below are composites […]
Read MoreBioluminescence
You most likely know that it means the ability of some living things to emit light – to glow. Examples from nature abound: glow worms, […]
Read MoreAnother Night Under the Stars
I spent much of last night doing astrophotography. Below is my most successful capture. The object is M15 – a globular cluster in the constellation […]
Read MoreThis Week in COVID
Here’s Dr. Klotman’s weekly COVID Update
Read MoreNavel Gazing
Americans are a parochial lot, I think sometimes. But perhaps it seems so only because I have spent my entire life here. If I had […]
Read MoreReturn of the Queen
Susan came home this evening from her Omaha visit. I prepared this surf ‘n turf supper for her. The turf is a sous vide (2hrs […]
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