Happy Birthday, Brooklyn Bridge!

Saturday is the 125th birthday of that great icon of our city, the Brooklyn Bridge! Man, with it being Fleet Week, Lisa being in town, Memorial Day, and now this, what an exciting weekend! I hope everyone has a blast! It was so singular a marvel, so ambitious a feat,...

Platypus’s Genome Mapped

This is fun, its about time they started in with the interesting creatures.. I mean who wants the genome of a fruit fly anyway(sic)!?! I certainly would have raised one of these in space! At first dismissed as a prank, and later cited as proof that God has a sense of...

May 3rd, Shutdown Day

I’m going to participate! At first I was concerned it was going to be on a work day, in which case, I would only be able to at the risk of losing my job. But on a Saturday? No problem! I’ll make a great outdoor adventure out of that day! It is obvious that...

Game On Wednesday! Interactive Olympic Relay!

France got 3 outs, Are we going to let them beat us like that? Its exciting that the world is rallying behind the first international Interactive Torch Relay. I am rooting for Team America on this one, I certainly think that we can extinguish the torch more than three...

New Coins from the Royal Mint

Even though, in this day and age, coins may seem, sort of, obsolete, these are so stunning I’m thinking about buying one of the display collections. The new designs have been chosen via an open competition which was widely publicised in the national media in...