Archive for July, 2010

Twilight: New Moon(s)

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

Did I trick any Twilight lovers out there? Sorry to disappoint you fan-pires, but this post is not about the movie, but about today being the birthday anniversary of astronomer Charles Dillon Perrine. Twilight: New Moon might not have been around when Charles Perrine was born in Ohio on July 28th in 1867, but Jupiter’s [...]

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Vampire Myths = Real Life?

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

The final movie in the Twilight saga opened at the Maryland Science Center’s IMAX Theater last week. Whenever I hear the word “vampire” I automatically think of the blood-sucking villains from the scary stories I heard growing up.  While I know that’s not “real life,” there’s actually some solid science behind many of the myths [...]

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