THE NORT SPEWS ~ News and Reviews

So what were YOU doing that year? In April of 1961 I had just turned 14 and was entering a phase of historical and political global consci...

Cookie, shmookie -- there's nothing like old music to evoke old memories ... Remember Monty Python's "Summarize Proust" ...

Let's see what the tea leaves have to say ... Since back before the turn of the century (I know, that used to mean about a hundred yea...

So we're going back to the moon, maybe even Mars. How come we're not excited about it? Could be it has something to do with NASA...

The second thing that captured my imagination this week was the report that Voyager 1 has entered the next stage of its departure from our s...

During the course of my own brief lifetime, a mere half century or so, the universe has aged quite a bit. Of course, that is only in our p...