Did you know that every star in our galaxy revolves around a black hole? That this black hole is named Sagittarius A*? That Sagittarius A* weighs 4 million times as much as our sun and is 27,000 light years away? … [Read more...]

N.Y. Times article today on scientific research into melting permafrost and escaping methane gas: "Preliminary computer analyses, made only recently, suggest that the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions could eventually become an annual source of carbon equal to 15 … [Read more...]

Since I last posted, I've been trying to recover from a nasty respiratory virus that has left me with "a touch of bronchitis"; meanwhile, my computer suffered a truly nasty malware attack and had to have Windows re-installed. This brings to mind a favorite William … [Read more...]

The foreclosure stories of community members, shouted out by the People's Mic like all the other speeches, were invariably poignant. There was the woman who explained how her landlady "turned our building into an ATM for her family" by taking out a couple of … [Read more...]

A number of weeks ago, Black Agenda Report suggested that expanding the Occupation agenda to target "the goods in the hood" (foreclosed homes and shuttered infrastructure, the tangible--and cruelly tantalizing--local evidence of Wall Street's malfeasance) would … [Read more...]