December 2010
6 posts
The Day We Found The Universe
30 December 1924: on this day it was formally announced that Edwin Hubble—working on the Hooker Telescope at California’s Mount Wilson Observatory—had determined that several “spiral nebulae” or “island universes” were far too distant to be part of our galaxy, thus establishing that the Milky Way is only one of billions of other galaxies in the Universe.
The Bar Closes (But You Don't Want to Go Home)
The Bar Closes (But You Don’t Want to Go Home)
While the man you love bites stories into someone else’s back, there’s a flicker in your eye only seen in late-night
television (the heroine stretching her face, half- grin, half-cry), all you’ve done wrong clarified in a liquidy theme song.
You...