Christmas is a week away, so perhaps you’re starting to plan out your special holiday meal. If seafood is on the menu, may we remind you that there are many tasty options available that will please your dinner guests while … Continue reading →

At 5:55 p.m. today, it will be exactly 40 years since anyone has been on the moon. It was at that time on Dec. 14, 1972, that Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt lifted off from the moon’s Taurus-Littrow valley. Cernan … Continue reading →

We’ve had some evenings recently that were so unseasonably warm that you may have heard the pleasing peeps of tree frogs coming from your local woods. It’s unusual to be hearing tree frogs in December. (But, then again, who’s to … Continue reading →

So where’s Mary Lee? Well, we can tell you that at 1 p.m. Thursday she was in the Atlantic Ocean about 20 miles due south of Myrtle Beach, S.C.   As for where she’ll be over the next few weeks … … Continue reading →

Well, it looks like NASA’s Curiosity rover hasn’t met up with little green men or even found any organic compounds on Mars.  Yet. (We’ll add that qualifier.) Curiosity did sort out some complex chemicals, which – according to Monday’s news … Continue reading →