December 2016

New Year’s. In our modern United States culture, it is a night and day of partying, staying up to late, watching football, eating too much food, drinking too much booze […]

The Star

“In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, asking, “Where is the child who has been […]

A Cosmic Influence

Twenty years ago today, Carl Sagan passed away from a cancer-related blood disease, myelodysplasia. If you know ANYTHING about twentieth century astrophysics, you know who Dr. Sagan was and what […]