Dizzy's Wanderings & Wonderings

No, the title didn't say "libation", which means an alcoholic drink, although too much libation may cause you to see some extr...

We got a menagerie in our back yard, since we put up the bird feeders.  This morning there were many, many birds and squirrels out there.  I...

There are a lot of different salad and cooking oils to choose from in the grocery stores, so to try to narrow the broad range down some, I a...

Instead of writing a blog today, I want you to go to the link I found on a friend of mine's blog.  This, which should have been headline...

How many planets are there?  If your answer is 8, that is only how many (including Pluto which has been demoted from planet status) that are...

I bet you thought that an awful lot of hard work, many hours of thought, and lots of trials and errors are involved in great inventions.  I ...

First, I need to explain gravitational lensing to you, unless you know all about it.  For those of you who aren't astronomers and don...